For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by ...
New mapping of the Milky Way has uncovered a vast family tree of stellar siblings, revealing that hundreds of star clusters ...
"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...
The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...
An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...
Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the universe's matter, remains invisible to modern instruments. However, a new ...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...
Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely ...
Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth, ...
This discovery helps answer a long-standing mystery about how galaxies, like our own Milky Way, were born. Seeing Back 10 Billion Years Galaxies often have two layers: a thick disc filled with older ...