A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...

A spherical object lurking in our galaxy is so perfectly circular that astronomers can't explain how it was formed. Dubbed ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Multiple space agencies will send missions to the moon this decade and the next, with plans to establish infrastructure that ...

Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features.

Utilizing advanced imaging techniques, researchers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories determined that the ...

A 2,300-year-old Chinese star chart challenges the origins of astronomy—sparking debate among experts about its true age.

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...