Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

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For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

The Milky Way, our warped spiral galaxy, spans 120,000 light-years and hosts over 200 billion stars, including our Sun. It's embedded in a dark matter ...

"As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our Galaxy seem greatly exaggerated." That's the conclusion scientists have reached after revisiting the possibility of what we thought was a ...

Research teams from the UK, USA, Sweden, and other nations have successfully unraveled the origin of globular clusters, a puzzle that has troubled astronomers for centuries, through high-precision ...

According to IT Home, the truly remarkable aspect of this system lies in its orbital speed. The two giant stars complete an ...

The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the bright stars, identified as red dwarfs —are separated by 1,656 astronomical ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum plaguing the standard model of cosmology.

(CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long ...

An explanation of why some argue it's better to photograph the Milky Way in summer and how to do it, including the best ...

It wasn’t all that many years ago that you could go to a major astronomy meeting and hear the latest news about galaxies and supernovas and quasars and the Big Bang — but nothing at all about planets ...