A tiny star located about 1,590 light-years from Earth could be as old as 13.53 billion years, making it one of the…
The center of our galaxy is an extreme place that holds all sorts of mysteries. Among those enigmas are what appear to…
The closest galaxy to our own is the majestic Andromeda galaxy, a collection of a trillion stars located a “mere” 2…
This might come as a surprise, but we don’t really know what our own galaxy looks like. We can only see it from our…
“The void” is more than a metaphor for gnawing existential pain. In fact, new research from an international team of…
Using two of the world’s largest configurable telescopes, scientists have created the most detailed map yet of hydrogen…
Since finding a perfectly dark sky is rare in our electrically-powered world, we at Gizmodo like to highlight the areas…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a huge expanse of space near the center of the Milky Way that’s…
Our world is getting brighter, as we turn more and more lights on across the planet. But all that light shining from…
Researchers scanning the skies just got a big surprise. They spotted a humongous galaxy orbiting our own, where none…
Looking at these spiral galaxies glowing brightly against the dark, it’s hard to imagine that they could be so easily…
Seven years after their last effort at mapping our Galaxy, the APEX telescope has given us something even more…
Astronomers just uncovered hundreds of hidden galaxies a mere 250 million light years away from Earth—well within our…
The cosmos is littered with clouds of star-forming gas, but few are as well studied as the Smith Cloud, set to crash…
Using the VISTA telescope, astronomers in Chile have discovered a previously undetected band of young stars hidden away…
How big is this photo? So big that just by taking it, astronomers found over 50,000 new stars and other bright space…
Created by stitching together over 400,000 taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope, YouTube user daveachuk made this…
Scientists working with the Planck Satellite have produced a new polarization map of the Milky Way in microwaves,…
Mapping the outer fringes of our universe is, obviously, a tremendously tricky task. But we should be able to get the…
The merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy won’t happen for another 4 billion years, but the recent discovery of…
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