Eclipsing binaries are special pairs of stars that cross in front of one another as they orbit—stars that take turns blocking ...

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It’s 7 billion years ago, and the universe’s heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy ...

A NASA-developed material made of carbon nanotubes will enable our search for exoplanets—some of which might be capable of ...

The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion in the ...

It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. When astronomers ...

Roughly 210,000 light-years away, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of our Milky Way galaxy’s closest neighbors. In ...

Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31, the Milky ...

The following expedition marks the third installment of NASA Astrobiology’s fieldwork series, the newly rebranded Our Alien ...

Clusters of stars set the interstellar medium ablaze in the Andromeda Galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away. Also known ...

An international team of scientists has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to ...

A glittering collection of stars shines against a background of much more distant galaxies in this view from NASA’s Hubble ...