Josh Dury, aka The Starman, is a fine example, as he is fast establishing himself as one of the UK’s hottest young ...

Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic ...

A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the ...

It challenges what we know about how galaxies form. Picture a galaxy like our own Milky Way: a flat, rotating structure made up of stars, gas and dust, often surrounded by an extensive halo of unseen ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the characteristics of cosmic dust in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that ... direction of the Ursa Major constellation, where the Big Dipper ...

An artist's impression shows a red dwarf (left) and a white dwarf (center) closely orbiting each other. Astronomers believe the tight orbit causes the stars' magnetic fields to interact, releasing ...

The dust spread across the Milky Way dims and reddens the light from distant stars. When light from a star travels to us, the tiny dust particles more strongly absorb and scatter bluer wavelengths, ...

You haven’t truly seen stars until you’ve seen them from a certified International Dark Sky Park, where the Milky Way doesn’t just appear ... April through June brings views of spring constellations ...

The discovery of the galaxy gives astronomers a useful comparative tool for studying satellite galaxies on the outskirts of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The team’s findings were published this ...