Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth’s history. A new study ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found the dimmest and smallest satellite galaxy yet—Andromeda XXXV—forcing them ...

NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) lifted off on March 11 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

Launched Tuesday night from California by SpaceX, the Spherex observatory will survey the sky every six months from an orbit over Earth's poles.

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.