The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will map the Milky Way using infrared observations, studying star formation, stellar evolution, star clusters, and hidden galactic structures over a two-year survey.

A faint, irradiated streak carved into nearby interstellar clouds is giving astronomers their clearest evidence yet that two ...

How can a galaxy display perfectly defined spiral arms when the Universe had only a little over 10% of its current age? This ...

An interstellar comet believed to be billions of years older than the Sun passed its closest point to Earth on Friday, giving ...

The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

The Nancy Grace Roman (the famous NASA astronomer, not to be mistaken for the crime show host), which is slated for launch by ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ground-based observations at this wavelength." When you purchase through ...