Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have ...
First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...
The tech world is all about the "latest and greatest", the shiny new devices that occupy our pockets. They come equipped with ...
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a true factory for the production and dissemination of elements essential to all ...
A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...
An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.