Stars in the Milky Way tend to form in families, with similar stars springing to life in roughly the same place at roughly ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

Amazon has launched its first operational Project Kuiper satellites in its attempt to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink—but ...

Explore how interferometry is revolutionizing space-based telescopes, enabling ultra-high resolution imaging for studying ...

In its quest to chart the evolution of the universe, ESA’s space telescope has already amassed a massive catalog of galaxies ...

On the vast canvas of the cosmos, where starlight typically reigns supreme, there are regions in which darkness not only ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked a rare and fast-moving magnetar – called SGR 0501+4516 – as it speeds ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...