Astronomers have created the most detailed low-frequency map of the Milky Way, revealing otherwise hidden stars and ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...

RIT researchers have revealed a new view of the Red Spider Nebula, as featured in ‘The Astrophysical Journal’ and by the ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Telescope to detect complex carbon molecules frozen around a young star, ST6, beyond our ...

Contextualizing speed and distance helps set expectations. Around perihelion, 3I/Atlas is moving at roughly 68 km per second. Its closest approach to Earth is about 1.8 AU, near December 19, which is ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

Combining a quantum-inspired algorithm and quantum information processing technologies could enable researchers to measure ...

C omet 3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar object to cross the Solar System, and in a matter of days it will pass the ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...