Stellar streams are trails of stars that astronomers can study to solve mysteries about the history of our Milky Way galaxy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured a massive stellar jet in the Sharpless 2-284 (Sh2-284 ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence for our sun joining a mass migration of similar "twins" leaving the core regions of our ...

Our sun and a host of "solar twins" may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together long ago, potentially making the solar system more hospitable to life.

New high-resolution simulations reveal that stellar rotation plays a crucial role in transporting material inside red giant stars.

A new lecture series at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will honor one of the most influential figures in the city’s astronomy history while bringing a distinguished alumnus back to the ...

Milky Way billions of years ago. This remarkable journey, revealed through the most detailed catalog of similar stars to date ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

NASA astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered a vast, million-degree gas bubble surrounding HD 61005, a 100-million-year-old Sun-like star about 120 light-years away. Its ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

Four major astronomy projects worth ₹3,500 crore announced in the Union Budget, set for completion in 3 to 13 years.