Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

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

The SPHEREx mission is managed by NASA JPL for the agency's Astrophysics Division within the Science Mission Directorate at ...

Sisters has been named Oregon's newest 'Dark Sky Community,' in recognition of the city’s efforts to curb light pollution.

Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...