In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

Following the recent Wolf Moon in a celestial game of peekaboo with Mars, January is shaping up to be a dazzling spectacle for stargazers, with a parade of planets crisscrossing ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

A team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researcher Catherine Fielder captured the most precise photographs of a ...

This is the largest photomosaic yet assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

A hidden structure that is 5000 degrees and moving was discovered inside the Earth's core. What do the past, present and ...