From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...
A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...
New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...
The discovery of a distant, well-structured spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has astounded scientists, revealing new insights ...
Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?
Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...
Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes up a filament in the ...
Before 3I/ATLAS, the only other confirmed interstellar tourists we've seen were the now-famous, cigar-shaped 'Oumuamua' in ...
Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...
Harvard's Avi Loeb argues the 3I/ATLAS anti-tail defies solar physics, suggesting the interstellar visitor is not a comet but ...