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

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

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From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

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.

Researchers analyze fossilized sounds of the Big Bang in space, and the distortions present in it indicate that the Milky Way ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began its legendary mission unfolding the secrets of our universe and producing some of the ...

A team of astronomers has presented a theory suggesting that Earth and our entire galaxy, the Milky Way, may be located ...