A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

Usually, young massive stars move around along with the gas that they were born from – but the SMC’s stars do not appear to be moving in that way, suggesting that the gas itself is not ...

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia. The bill ...

One of the most promising and controversial ideas involves a vast empty region of space that could be skewing ... The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C (Sgr C). Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often ... light-years of the Milky Way. The new radio image helps to put in context the inset infrared image by the James Webb Space Telescope from 2023 of ...

Walmart has a new “Onn 4K Plus” streaming device on the way, and the hardware seems like it’s going to fill a gap left by the death of the Chromecast. Google announced last year that ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as "the discovery machine of the decade." ...

The new image is an up-close view of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...

Tornado-like narrow, long filaments of gas spin around the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way. These previously unseen structures could be key in the transport of gas in space. Mysterious ...

Paris: Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for ...