New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...

Due to the costs and duration of the Hubble project, NASA was under pressure. At the end of 1995, it released a photo that ...

The University of Michigan has been announced as one of two American institutions helping with the design and construction of ...

Exactly 10 years since he blasted into space, Tim Peake reveals the lessons he learned in orbit - and what the future holds ...

The Subaru Telescope’s new Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) now carries the name ʻŌnohiʻula, following a naming ceremony Nov.

As South Africa confronts a mental health crisis, this innovative project is paving a new path towards emotional wellbeing — one that encourages citizens to look up, reflect, and connect under the ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Curiosity, collaboration and a passion for discovering how the universe works have propelled this rising astrophysicist onto ...

On Nov. 25, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center successfully joined the two main segments of the Nancy Grace ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...