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Astronomers have uncovered a surprising new structure in our region of the galaxy, an interstellar tunnel that appears to ...

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing — the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing—the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

That’s the scenario painted by a new study, which finds that if alien civilizations exist, they are probably rare, distant, and most likely millions of years older than humanity. According to the ...

In 1932, a new set of eyes on the universe were opened thanks to an accidental discovery by Karl Jansky. The young engineer from Bell Laboratories in the U.S., was looking for the source of static ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope detect a faint smudge that may be the first galaxy, or a nearby impostor, named ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.