Globular clusters are dense groups of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that orbit galaxies such as the Milky Way.

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

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By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

In the vast and boundless universe, every star tells its own story. Recently, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed a new secret of the Milky Way—those star clusters and ...

Experts say that now is the best time to look up if you want to see a bigger and brighter view of Saturn and its rings. Find ...

Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

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Do we know what space actually smells like? And what about other planets, moons, and celestial bodies? Here's what the ...