In the sprawling Hydra constellation, 137 million light-years away, lies NGC 3285B—a dazzling spiral galaxy recently ...

NASA has unveiled a dazzling new collection of cosmic images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing spectacular stars ...

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with an ...

The regular matter that makes us, planets, stars, and galaxies is about 5 percent of the matter-energy content of the ...

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The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new study reveals that major satellite constellations, including Starlink, ...

Han’s paper reveals how the nebula’s dust cools, links the background dust to the foreground stars, and suggests the stars ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...