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

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

In 2017, astronomers found hypervelocity stars believed to have come from the Large Magellanic Cloud, supposedly kicked out ...

In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA consultant.

A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who recently completed her Ph.D. at York University under the supervision of Prof. Adam ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb reveals why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be an alien 'Trojan Horse' by design rather than a natural ...

Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere containing roughly 10 million stars. Earlier this year, astronomers found evidence ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor, reaches its closest approach to Earth on Dec 19 at about 167 million miles - visible ...

Radio waves from Earth have been moving through space for more than a century. They did not start as part of any grand plan ...