Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies, which feature arms covered in ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

For decades, the ΛCDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter) cosmological model has been the cornerstone of our understanding of the ...

Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way. For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered ...

An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...