That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...
A strange break in a stream of stars in the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter, but only if the dark matter is hot ...
Any chocolate fan's eyes light up when seeing a box of Valentine's Day candy. But not all chocolate is created equal, and ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...
Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia catalog (eDR3). The upper part shows a region where the Palomar 5 star cluster and its tidal tails are observed (DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, ...