Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

Astronomers have released a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects. This is the most detailed map ever produced to date. Using the VISTA telescope at the ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is ... Earth's skies 843 years ago has a flowering 'zombie star' at its heart — and it's still exploding ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

The stunning “first piece” of a map detailing the greater universe ... dim clouds can be seen in between the stars of the Milky Way as well. They are called “galactic cirrus” as they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...

ESO Telescope Captures the Most Detailed Infrared Map Ever of Our Milky ... and the universe's heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...