Newly Discovered 'Jellyfish Galaxy' Stunned Astronomers and Could Reveal a Chapter of Galactic Evolution Data from the James ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

An explosion seen in the cosmos in the early 1600s may actually be an "Alien Type Ia supernova", according to a new paper. In October 1604, astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler spotted a new ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

Astronomer and astrophysicist Frank Drake designed the map, ... It also establishes the 2-dimensional galactic plane—the plane in which the majority of our disc-shaped galaxy's mass lies.

Despite being vast galactic distances apart, their conversation flows surprisingly well, without any communication delay. In reality, that would be impossible, says Skelton.

Virgin Galactic retired the VSS Unity last year. In March, the company started assembling its first two next-generation Delta rocket planes at a newly constructed hangar complex at Mesa Gateway ...