At the center of our galaxy, a vast region of gas and dust remains hidden from our view. A new observation now offers us an unprecedented vision, revealing its internal mechanisms. How do stars ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

Using the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, an international team of astronomers has observed ...

Asteroids! From 2024 YR 4's possible lunar impact to the DART mission's impact of Dimophos, we look at how scientists are ...

The Sun may have been part of a small group of stars that migrated from the core of our galaxy between 4 and 6 billion years ago.

A possible meteor sighting over Ohio and Pennsylvania startled residents, leading to emergency calls. Meanwhile, astronomers detected a unique planet with a magma ocean and sulfur-rich atmosphere in ...

New observations of L 98-59d, a member of the five-planet system L 98-59, suggest it harbors a vast global magma ocean that traps sulfur deep inside, forming a previously unrecognized class of ...

NASA has received the first images from a tiny spacecraft designed to study the stars that host distant planets. The mission, ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising trait: They are unusually calm and quiet in terms of harsh radiation. This ...

Milky Way season, when the galaxy's bright center is visible, is underway. The best viewing time in the Northern Hemisphere ...

You can get a great view of the Milky Way at night by just looking up. The Milky Way is generally visible all year from sunset to sunrise. The Milky Way will appear as a faint, milky band of light ...