The moon was not in view during the crew’s orbit in the night portions — which meant the Milky Way’s main belt was bright ...

Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...

Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

Researchers at the University of Surrey have confirmed their astrophysical models using new data from the Euclid space ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Tiny black hole "bullets" left over from the Big Bang could be passing through Mars at speeds in excess of 7,000 times the ...

Comets take the name of the discoverer, whether that be a human or an automated telescopic survey that robotically inspects ...

"The most exciting part of the HSC was the discovery of 11 objects at distances beyond the known Kuiper Belt," said Yoshida.

Dwarf galaxies may contain less than a thousand stars. At the other extreme of mass, supergiant galaxies can encompass a hundred trillion stars in orbit around the galactic center. The Milky Way also ...