The vastness of space makes it impossible for humans to discover every one of the hiding places that the universe holds. Its infinitude makes it an eternal enigma, but with technol ...

Nevada is one of very few places left in the country where there is so little artificial light the Milky Way is visible to ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope found X-ray signals from young stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These stars are in the “Wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy. The skin ...

NASA and SpaceX are set to launch the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions on March 4, aiming to explore cosmic origins and the Sun’s ...

"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

A family portrait of the Andromeda galaxy and its orbiting dwarf satellites raises questions about how galaxies evolve.

With the stresses on planet Earth in the headlines, at work and your day-to-day life, do you need a reminder that we’re just a speck on a dot in the endless vacuum of space? If so, ...

Hubble's latest survey of Andromeda reveals a chaotic past, a swarm of satellite galaxies, and a cosmic mystery that ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...