Recent studies suggest that our galaxy, the Milky Way, may be situated in a cosmic void, a revelation that could potentially resolve some complex cosmological mysteries. The exploration of these ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing—the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will ...

In the vast and boundless universe, every star tells its own story. Recently, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed a new secret of the Milky Way—those star clusters and ...

UAH researchers, led by Dr. Chakrabarti, have used pulsars to detect dark matter sub-halos in the Milky Way for the first ...

S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

Mapping the Universe’s vast structure no longer requires endless supercomputer time. Effort.jl brings cosmic modeling to laptops without sacrificing accuracy.

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda. The stud ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

The unknown phenomenon repeated several times over the course of a day, an event unlike anything ever witnessed before.

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...