In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

A daily round of trivia for kids can be a fun way to impart knowledge to your children. So, if your child is curious and ...

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

Using data from the APOGEE survey, astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, the University of Vienna and Paris Observatory have reconstructed the properties of ‘hidden’ stars ...

D9 is the first star pair ever found near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This image shows an emission line of hydrogen mapped by the SINFONI instrument on ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a galaxy, named “Firefly Sparkle,” resembling an early Milky Way. This discovery by Wellesley College shows a galaxy forming shortly after the Big ...

New Delhi: In 2012, it was found that Kepler-52, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star has three exoplanets in its orbit. Each of those exoplanets turned out to be with a density higher than cotton candy.

One way to do that will be to peer into the atmospheres of the puffy transiting worlds and see exactly what they're made of – which is the work the team was trying to do in the first place. As always, ...

As the geography of the region changes, mining, cargo ship traffic and wildfires have become more common, offering these (sometimes prehistoric) microbes a way to reach areas populated by vulnerable ...