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As Voyager 2 crosses into the mysterious boundary of interstellar space, it has encountered something scientists are calling ...
The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.
The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.
Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and photograph - the Milky Way.
Mars will appear in close alignment with the star Regulus on June 16. Summer stargazing offers many celestial events, but haze, brush fire particles and event dust from the Sahara Desert may pose ...
The Milky Way’s big crash with Andromeda might not be a sure thing. Plus, we discuss an overheated ocean, a giant planet circling a tiny star and worms that build living towers.
Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole jet that is three times bigger than the Milky Way. The jet is known as Quasar J1601+3102, and it was first spotted by astronomers using the Low ...
It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all.
Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.
The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.
What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky.