The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

when the bright 'train' of objects entered into view," Netherlands ... version of each Starlink satellite weighs 573 lbs. (260 kilograms) and is, according to Sky & Telescope magazine, roughly ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) has partnered with Japanese media company Asahi Shimbun to provide a 24/7 livestream of Maunakea’s summit via the new ...

The resulting colossal image was stitched together from 600 different fields of view, is made of at least ... an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told National Geographic ...