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The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...

Comet Lemmon was discovered in January 2025 and made its closest approach to Earth in late October 2025. But by November 2025 ...

I/ATLAS comet is the 3rd-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. It's not a threat, approaches Earth in December 2025.

He cited the astronomical gaffe in January, when The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., announced the discovery of an ...

Researchers unveil a method using stellar chemical compositions to map hidden structures in the Milky Way, enhancing our understanding of Galactic dynamics.

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Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...