Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Astronomers from the University of Arizona have uncovered astonishing details about a galaxy that existed when the universe ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

At the Harvard College Observatory in years around 1900, women were hired to make measurements of astronomical data and do ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Scientists have discovered an extraordinarily massive black hole weighing an astounding 36 billion solar masses, challenging our current theories of galaxy evolution.

BL Lacertae blazar shifts between classifications faster than expected. It shows record X-ray activity and challenges current ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

An international of team astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust ...

Astronomers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) map detailing the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky ...