Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins ...

The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...

Many galaxies, including the Milky Way, have a flat, stretched, rotating stellar disk. These disk galaxies typically have two primary parts: a thin disk and a thick disk.

More information: Maosheng Xiang et al, The formation and survival of the Milky Way's oldest stellar disk, Nature Astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02382-w Journal information: Nature ...

The thick disk consists of older stars whose orbits take them along a path that extends both above and below the more regular thin disk. “The classical thin stellar disks that we typically see ...

The structure and internal motions of the stellar disk of a spiral galaxy hold important keys to understanding the galaxy’s formation history. The Andromeda galaxy, also called M31, is the closest ...

Santa Cruz, CA — Astronomers have obtained new evidence of an extreme warp in the stellar disk of the Andromeda Galaxy (also known as M31), our nearest galactic neighbor. The findings are being ...