"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss the opportunity." In 2017, scientists spotted our solar system's first ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

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Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

A team of astronomers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) discovered the cloud at the midpoint of a dust lane within the Milky Way’s central bar, approximately 23,000 light-years away.

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