That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

A strange break in a stream of stars in the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter, but only if the dark matter is hot ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

Carl Sagan famously said, "We are made of star-stuff," but even he didn't realize just how far that star stuff traveled ...

Figure 1 - Examples of images captured with the JWST, from the galaxy sample analyzed in this study ... On one side, spiral galaxies, disk-shaped, like our Milky Way. They are young, gas-rich, and ...

revealing an animated diagram of all the planets of the solar system, each orbiting on their own outlined path. Solar system with all planets and milky way in the background, moving trough space with ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...