Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have ...

Fomalhaut is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and is about 25 light-years away, making it a galaxy amenable to ...

You’ll see some irregular galaxies that look like nothing, and some barred spirals that look like everything. Along the way, ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope detect a faint smudge that may be the first galaxy, or a nearby impostor, named ...

Sequels are never as good as the originals, right? That certainly doesn't apply to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), whose latest image adds a new dimension of data to its spectacular 2024 image ...

Some ten million light-years away from Earth sits a brilliant spiral galaxy officially called NGC 253 but known by many different names: Caldwell 65, Silver Dollar Galaxy, the Silver Coin. Most people ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...