The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the same age as the Milky Way. The “P” in Leo P refers to “pristine,” because ...

The radiance of the starry sky always impresses with its majesty, but in the modern world it is increasingly difficult to ...

The instrument, called the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), features approximately 2,400 prisms scattered across the extremely wide field of view available at the Subaru Telescope’s primary focus, ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe transformed cosmology, revealing countless galaxies and laying the ...

Notably, the University of Tokyo Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe has taken the lead in ...

NASA’s Webb telescope uncovers mysterious "little red dots," pointing to the existence and growth of supermassive black holes ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

NEW BEDFORD — Although the two shows currently at the New Bedford Art Museum are quite different, they have something big in ...

In an astronomical feat, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering ...

The Nocs Field Tube 8x32 is weatherproof and offers excellent views of the moon and planets. It's a great companion for the ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...