NASA’s Chandra Observatory captures a composite image of the Champagne Cluster, showing two merging galaxy clusters, hot gas distribution and dark matter structures.
To make this discovery, researchers traced the paths of 21 stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way using data from the ...
The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...
A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.
Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.
Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...
Looking ahead, the comet will pass roughly 33 million miles from Jupiter in March 2026. Loeb noted the scientific value: monitoring 3I/ATLAS with the Juno spacecraft could reveal unusual activity, ...
The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...
On Dec. 20, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen emerged from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building in their bright ...
How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...
The opening was held at Irvine Spectrum Center on Dec. 12. It is the seventh U.S. location for the 27-hole miniature golf attraction Holey Moley; the related Hijinx Hotel features 15 challenge rooms, ...
Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...