The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already uncovered two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way using preliminary observations covering just 7% of the night sky. The discoveries include an ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered the dwarf galaxy Aquarius IV and the star cluster Rubin-GC1 in preliminary ...

Hubble has released a new image of Messier 30, known as M30, a globular cluster about 27,500 light-years away in the ...

Simulations suggest the faintest galaxies near the Milky Way share one iron level because a single giant first star exploded in each.

A skymap of stars in the Milky Way and its environment, using data from the Gaia satellite. The area of sky observed by Rubin during a test run is ...

Need new artwork in your home? How about one that you build yourself? LEGO’s Art lineup has some really cool sets that are ...

One of NASA’s premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe’s ...

Before 2026 ends, stargazers in the US will have a chance to witness the peaks of five more meteor showers, including the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun delivering its first scientific results. Among them is the discovery of new Milky Way ...

Crowded star clusters in the early Universe could have built giant stars, seeded black holes and fed the mysterious little ...

A satellite designed to live two years and named for its speed is ending its life slowly and then with a blistering pace. Unable to steer and unable to observe, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ...

Galactic archaeologists are using precise measures and larger sample sizes afforded by new missions to tease apart minute differences between groups of stars, revealing the history of the Milky Way ...