Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

"We are all in orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. How big is this collection of stars? Somewhere between 200 and 400 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy, about 100,000 light years ...

The Milky Way galaxy is a majestic sight to behold. Here are 10 awe-inspiring images captured by NASA that showcase the ...

A large fire broke out tonight at the Milky Way Dairy Farm on the outskirts of Maricopa, destroying a barn and continuing to ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

What Is a Galaxy? A view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3982, as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies come in many ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

The Highway 18 drive-in in Jefferson closed after the 2024 season when the theater's owner retired. The property is still for ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

SETI combines cutting-edge radio astronomy, data science, and planetary research in a global effort to detect signs of ...