One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the cluster shows up nicely in this fine photo of it by EAAA member James Schultz.

NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

The Galaxy Donut Shop on Central isn’t just serving up donuts; it’s dishing out delicious dreams, one glazed wonder at a time ...

The Galaxy Donut Shop is proof that Wyoming is more than just wide-open spaces and rodeos (although those are pretty great ...

Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will create a ...

According to NASA's SPHEREx mission details, the observatory will survey the entire sky using near-infrared light. Its goals include exploring how galaxies evolved, understanding the structure of the ...

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

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.