Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

This image shows the regions of the Milky Way mapped by the VISTA Variables in ... to sustain nuclear fusion like stars, causing them to cool and fade relatively quickly.

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...

The image shows the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy about 26,000 light-years away.

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have potentially discovered the first brown dwarfs beyond the borders of ...