For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

Astronomers have identified a compact, superheated galaxy in the early universe that is churning out new suns at roughly 180 ...

These young, hot blue stars are members of the Pleiades open star cluster and resides about 430 light-years away in the ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

Our solar system is speeding through the galaxy at more than three times the velocity scientists once believed, according to ...

A new study reveals that the Pleiades is the core of a once-much-larger cluster, many of whose members have scattered to the ...

The Mercury Diner, with its retro-futuristic charm and space-themed decor, is quietly revolutionizing breakfast in the Buckeye State while most folks are still hitting the snooze button. The Mercury ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...