Infrared astronomy has revealed so much about the universe, ranging from protoplanetary disks and nebulae to brown dwarfs, ...

Using the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), Chinese astronomers have identified nearly 300 ...

NGC 602 is a roughly 3 million-year-old star-forming cluster on the outskirts of the SMC, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way that contains ... Studying this group of extragalactic failed stars ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

A dedicated group of local 911 dispatchers, who volunteered in late September to help overwhelmed dispatchers in the flood-ravaged Carolinas, have completed their month-long mission of mercy and ...

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our solar system ... The Milky Way has several satellite galaxies and is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which form part of the Virgo Supercluster ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Planetary Nebulae (PNe) are emission-line nebulae in a short-lived late stage of stellar evolution for low- to ...

(CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form.

The night sky is a wonderful thing to get lost in, and it’s a terrible thing to lose. Here's everything you need to know ...

The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and their retinue of a few dozen smaller galaxies make up what astronomers call the Local Group. In recent decades, it has become clear that most galaxies are ...