The Milky Way contains an enormous collection of stars, planetary systems, gas, and dust extending far beyond our familiar ...

The new data released by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has revealed the surprise phenomena of ‘starquakes’—massive ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study. The research, published in Monthly Notices of the ...

Image of the night sky above Paranal, Chile on 21 July 2007, taken by ESO astronomer Yuri Beletsky. A wide band of stars and dust clouds, spanning more than 100 degrees on the sky, is seen. This is ...

Hubble has released a new image of Messier 30, known as M30, a globular cluster about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. NASA published the picture on Nov. 5 alongside a note ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of sun "twins" spotted by a space telescope could shed new light on how our star came to host at least one life-friendly ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from Germany, France and Sweden show that most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local ...

Astronomers think that some 10 billion years ago, our Milky Way galaxy collided with another galaxy, which they’ve dubbed the Gaia Sausage. And on July 21, 2026, a team of astronomers at the Royal ...

Astronomers for the first time have identified a green star, documenting a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf that became a ghostly shade of chartreuse after ingesting rocky debris from ...

A team of astronomers may have detected the gamma-ray signature produced when antimatter particles, or positrons, collide with electrons outside of the Milky Way for the first time. The findings, ...

You've probably heard Star Trek characters throw around terms like "Gamma Quadrant" or "Beta Quadrant." Here's what to know ...