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This image, which is brimming with stars and dark dust clouds, is a small extract — a mere pinprick — of the full Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a ...

Astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, AI-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived data.

NASA astronomers used AI to examine Hubble Legacy Archive data, identifying over 1,300 unusual galaxies and other anomalies, including gravitational lenses and mergers.

The arrival of an interstellar comet is a truly momentous astronomical event, but witnessing one up close, from the orbit of another planet? That is the stuff of science fiction. Yet, this remarkable ...

This image provided by NASA shows X-rays from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory (represented in blue) that have been combined with infrared data from NASAs retired Spitzer Space Telescope (cyan, light ...

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

The Celestron Origin is a complete, easy-to-assemble home observatory. It uses a high-quality camera and software for easy astrophotography. The system automatically finds, tracks, and focuses on ...

Interstellar objects provide unique opportunities for studying materials from other stellar systems,” Harvard University’s ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of ...