Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...
For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...
A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and ...
The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...
NASA has shaken up the universe once again, this time through the discovery of the fastest object ever spotted, which ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...
The galaxy, known as Y1, existed just 800 million years after the Big Bang and is forming stars 180 times faster than the ...
August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...
A University of Arizona-led team has used a camera orbiting Mars to capture the closest images yet of a rare interstellar ...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech). Sooner or later on any clear, dark night, an ethe­real band called the Milky Way arches across the sky. Although recognized since antiquity, philosophers and ...