There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...

the Milky Way (the Vía Láctea) is a path of pale white light seen to span the night sky—at least if the viewer is far away from waste light spilling skyward from city lights. Historically, this milky ...

If you're in a dark enough location, far from any light pollution, you'll be able to look into the heart of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In the night sky, it appears as a curved band of stars and ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest large star-city to our own Milky Way, and it only appears dim because it lies over two ...

Leonardo’s Children's Museum invites adults to relive the joy of exploration and creativity with a special adults-only night ...

The results of our study provide the first solid evidence that globular clusters formed through multiple star-formation ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

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