Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

Researchers combined AI and supercomputers to simulate 100 billion stars, reproducing galactic phenomena faster than ever, ...

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly ...

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

From the Show Me State to the stars, Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble is credited with ...

A Platte County man who sexually abused a 5-year-old girl has been sentenced to more than three-and-a-half decades in prison.

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an ...

A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that an exceptionally rare star duo in the Milky Way has a third companion — ...

Pulsars are a special type of neutron star that pulses (hence the name), and these neutron stars likely form as the end ...