New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

NGC 6530: It is a young open cluster located about 4,300 light years from the Sun in the southern constellation of ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our ...

"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

New research suggests that interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua and Borisov arrive near Earth far more frequently than ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope found X-ray signals from young stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These stars are in the “Wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy. The skin ...