New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate the ...

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

Astro Tourism is the travel trend you didn’t know you needed. As 6 planets align in February 2025, here are best spots to watch the rare event in Saudi Arabia.

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

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Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank Drake, Ph.D., the eponymous Drake equation sought to estimate the number of ...

NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not. Their study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, found that around 35% of ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...