Right after sunset, the largest and smallest planets are near neighbors in the sky. Jupiter, the brighter of the two, is a ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the ...

Explore NGC 6946, the Fireworks Galaxy—an active starburst galaxy on the Cepheus-Cygnus border known for its high rate of ...

The Webb telescope reveals the Sombrero galaxy’s dusty and turbulent history in a new stunning near-infrared portrait.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has just added to the growing catalog of astronomical discoveries by providing a new ...

The Sombrero galaxy is located about 30 million light-years away from Earth at the edge of the Virgo galaxy cluster, and has ...

The Sombrero galaxy has long had a place in astronomical history as an intriguing object. The first written record of this ...

Francisco Javier Pérez Olvera, Manuel Alejandro Chavarría Silva, George William Hoffman, Kollar Istvan, Jonathan Schwab, ...

Now gather a few hundred billion stars and star clusters together, and you’ve got an immense structure known as a galaxy. The galaxy in which our star — the sun — resides is the Milky Way, so named ...

It can seem quite challenging for stargazers to comprehend the structure of the universe, but it’s really not that difficult. Just think of it as being ...

And these observations are giving us hints about what's going on? Astronomers have for the first time spotted two galaxies in the throes of a deep-space “duel.”Related video above: The dark ...

The history of the Universe, as far back as we can see using a variety of tools and telescopes, out ... More to the maximum present depth of SDSS. We are now up to SDSS-16, which can go all the ...