New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair.

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Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

A mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, according to scientists, BBC reports. Named 3I/Atlas, it may be three billion years older than our ...

Goar’s passion is the Dark Sky Telescope Program that runs through Sept. 21, and that takes place in the Hurricane Ridge ...

Globular cluster M56 is a gorgeous object in Lyra the Lyre that anyone can observe with binoculars or a telescope.

The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in our Butler night sky. As soon as it gets ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...