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This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to start with.

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...