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

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 video explains how telescopes, simulations and the motion of stars and gas help reconstruct the Milky Way from our ...

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 ...

I couldn't see what it was in the dark, and I had to wait a bit before I could safely pull over and remove it. Somehow, I was ...

Our cosmic neighbourhood is full of surprises, some you cannot even imagine. In a paper published on Monday in The ...

Although it’s not the long-sought Planet X (aka Planet 9) that’s believed to be orbiting beyond the orbit of Neptune, it ...

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

When astronomers spotted Capotauro, they suggested it could be the earliest galaxy we had yet seen. But now a new team finds ...

An exhilarating period for science,’ say UChicago scientists who played key role in telescope design and deployment ...

The video explains a simulated future merger between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It covers how the encounter ...