But the stellar halo, as this roughly ball-shaped, less dense grouping of stars is called, stretches the limits of the Milky ...

In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus ...

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree.

Years” isn’t about chasing their younger selves—it’s about showing that hip-hop’s elders can still create, contribute, and ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A light year is exactly what it sounds like: the distance light travels in one year. If you need to get somewhere quick, you'd want to jump on this train because light travels through ...

Humans have discovered powerful telescopes to gaze at the beautiful night sky, only to realize that distant objects in space are things of the past. The light of these distant objects takes a certain ...

Nas and DJ Premier reunite for Light Years, a highly anticipated 15 track album marking the grand finale of Mass Appeal’s ...

Even if they were dozens of light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth. At least, that’s according to a recent paper published in ...

New, groundbreaking research shows that rotation curves of galaxies stay flat indefinitely, corroborating predictions of modified gravity theory as an alternative to dark matter In a breakthrough ...

Those of us old enough to be alive in 1994 when Illmatic dropped have been waiting for Nas and DJ Premier to drop a ...

Nas and DJ Premier, two of the most important architects in rap history, have finally delivered their long-discussed ...

Congratulations on noticing an effect called superluminal expansion, a phenomenon we see in a light echo. The echo appears to us to expand at many times the speed of light, seemingly violating the ...