We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two interstellar ...

Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what is the mass of our galaxy?

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...

"Our reconstruction shows that clumps of actively forming stars are surrounded by diffuse light from other unresolved stars," ...

Most people do not like running, most people do not go outside at night, and most people find the desert contains a variety ...

Why is your discovery of the Firefly Sparkle galaxy important? Telescopes like JWST are essentially time machines. Since ...

NASA astronauts on the ISS share images of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It can be hard to see from Earth, but the view ...

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

The young galaxy is only 6,500 light years from its first companion and 42,000 light years from its second. In comparison, the fully formed Milky Way is 100,000 light years across and could easily fit ...

This galaxy, which is stretched and magnified, glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that formed at different times.

Lynden Transportation, a Northwest trucking company recognizable for its “Milky-Way” tanker trucks with cartoon cows, is expanding in Pasco to support its long-time customer, Darigold. Bob Brawdy ...