Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

A one-of-a-kind mountaintop stargazing experience at a Wyoming ski resort offers cosmic views, cutting-edge tech, and ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on December 19, and will be visible with binoculars or a small telescope, posing no threat to Earth.

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

A gamma-ray burst of unprecedented duration and behavior, detected last July, is keeping the international astrophysics ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

Comet Lemmon was discovered in January 2025 and made its closest approach to Earth in late October 2025. But by November 2025 ...