Your living room isn't the only place housing a large green Christmas tree with sparkling lights this year. NASA has found a spot in space with its own glowing cosmic tree for the holiday season. The ...

The cluster concept has emerged as an innovative approach to base defense operations, particularly for support organizations operating in hostile or austere environments. By consolidating resources, ...

The Bullet Cluster is a massive collection of two large groups of galaxies some 3.8 billion light-years distant. The two groups appear to have collided in one of the most energetic events known in the ...

As Orion and Gemini rise in the east after dark, they carry between them the lesser-known constellation Monoceros. Within this star pattern is our target for tonight: the festive Christmas Tree ...

Using the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), astronomers have observed a nearby young open ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund 1. Results of the study, published Jan. 28 on the pre-print server arXiv, ...

A closer look at the strange connected lifeforms known as “The Cluster” and the biology that could make them possible.

The sun wanders the Milky Way alone; our star orbits the galaxy’s distant center without any stellar siblings. But it wasn’t always this way. The solar system was very likely born in a tremendous gas ...

Formally known as Messier 44, the cluster is one of the closest of its kind to Earth. It will be visible throughout January, with the best viewing times after sunset and before midnight. While visible ...