The Sombrero Galaxy, also called Messier 104, sits around 31 million light-years away. It’s located in the direction of the ...

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

However, that isn’t what scientists see. Instead, stars orbit at about the same speed regardless of their distance from the galactic center. You might see this referred to as the "Galaxy Rotation ...

How can you fairly compare one telescope to another? It's all in the (angular) resolution. The entire point of introducing ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

The Las Vegas-based company that would operate the future Las Vegas Spaceport west of the city is offering wealthy customers ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The scattered waves create a pattern of bright and dim patches that drifts over ...

A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle.

Why it matters: University of Utah astronomers have used Hubble's images to find new (ish) black holes. How it works: When it ...