A figure in red trudges across a blanket of white. Snow squeaks under the scientist's feet, too dry to be slick or soft. Only ...

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers using early data from Rubin Observatory have identified two previously hidden companions of the Milky Way. One is ...

For now, the object announced by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory team earlier this week only goes by its provisional ...

Uncover how Gaia data reveals the Milky Way’s two-stage disk formation, explaining why its oldest stars formed in a thicker, ...

A new study claims that the VVV CL001 cluster is around 13.4 billion years old, which could make it the oldest star cluster ...

You can be moving at extraordinary speed and still feel completely stationary. The reason comes down to the difference between velocity and the changes in motion your body can actually detect.

Join the Black Hole Hunters project to help astronomers search NASA telescope data for hidden black holes using simple online citizen science tools.

"I want to sleep even one minute longer in the morning," or "I'm too tired at night to have the energy to layer on multiple skincare products."When days like that continue, the more you feel like you ...

Photographing the Milky Way means capturing the bright band of our galaxy with a camera, a tripod and a fast wide-angle lens in 10 to 20 seconds, on a moonless night far from city lights. It is the ...