Most CubeSats weigh less than a bowling ball, and some are small enough to hold in your hand. But the impact these ...

In a monumental achievement, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope have created the most comprehensive infrared map of the Milky Way, featuring over 1.5 billion cosmic ...

WASHINGTON - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may ...

To make this happen, scientists collected about 200,000 images between 2010 and 2023.

Google Maps in Space is a great supplement for any school assignment about Mars or Venus, but it’s also just a fun and educational way to explore our Solar System. If you’ve ever been to a ...

A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood.

New observations suggest our estimates of the cosmic dipole effect are actually in line with the large scale structure of the universe.

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

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Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star ...

The far outskirts of our galaxy are teeming with activity. Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a distant zone dubbed the "Extreme Outer Galaxy," and zoomed in on dense ...