Seattle stargazers may be in for a treat this week as two meteor showers — the Lyrids and the Eta Aquarids — light up the ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

In order for the Milky Way to be sharp in the picture, the exposure can’t be any longer than about 90 seconds. (And that’s with a very wide 14mm lens.) Any longer and the stars will start to ...

While this halo slowly cools over time, the black hole's jets act like a cosmic oven, preventing the formation of new stars despite the presence of abundant star-forming material. Our Milky Way ...

of the Milky Way. The CMZ, which contains tens of millions of solar masses of gas at the heart of the galaxy, produces far fewer stars than expected. While previous studies linked this anomaly to ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was ... positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as "the discovery machine of the decade." ...

The research sheds light on the violent births and deaths of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Stars tend to form within what scientists call "molecular clouds," or regions of space containing dense ...