Newly-processed image of Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster shows that this old space telescope can still impress with its pictures ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

The state of Utah is deservedly famed for its iconic red rocks and The Mighty 5® National Parks, drawing millions of visitors ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

The Big Ditch Park has a story that will make your family giggle – it used to be Main Street until a massive flood in 1895 washed it away! Nature decided to redecorate, and now it’s a beautiful park ...

Ruidoso sits in a forest of tall pines with mountains playing peekaboo in the background. The name means “noisy” in Spanish, named after the rushing Rio Ruidoso that sings through town. Wild horses ...

The general notion that the core of our galaxy, called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is an active place is not a new one. The forces that power the Mixmaster of the Milky Way have long remained a ...

Here’s what to know. By Aimee Ortiz Nowruz, the Persian New Year, began on Thursday, kicking off a celebration of life, renewal and rebirth that people in Iran and beyond have been observing for ...

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Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the characteristics of cosmic dust in the Milky Way galaxy ... and dimmer than they ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would ... pulses in a mysterious new class of ‘long period radio ...