A star cluster concealed behind thick clouds of dust near the Milky Way’s center may be 13.4 billion years old, placing it among the oldest known stellar groups in our galaxy. New observations have ...

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 ...

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.

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

Nov. 6, 2026 After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia. Originally designed to last just two ...

Good morning, this is Abel. Today's highlight is the story of NASA's twin Mars probes, ESCAPADE, which will fire their ...

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

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 ...

We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years. ​Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every ...

Gas and dust also fall directly into the clouds, along with streams of matter called cosmic filaments. Together, clouds and filaments join to form a rotating galaxy. This galaxy will continue to spin, ...

Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 ...