Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...
NASA's SPHEREx mission will survey the Milky Way galaxy looking for water ice and other key ingredients for life. In the ...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...
New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early ...
From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...
Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.
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