The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

Half toybox, half science project, Kerbal Space Program is the most fun you can have while learning about space. On the ...

A mysterious new world has been spotted at the galaxy's edge, sparking excitement among astronomers, and its all thanks to a ...

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The outer disc is darker with shades of brown and black. Different coloured distant galaxies and various stars are speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy.

Learn more about the spectacular new Cosmic Tornado Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outer space phenomena that shares the spotlight with a distant, aligned galaxy.

Astronomers trace repeating radio bursts to a 2-billion-light-year-old galaxy's outskirts, challenging everything we thought we knew about FRBs.

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right.

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...