A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our ...

Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large ...

A baby sunlike star blowing a bubble of hot gas called an “astrosphere” was captured for the first time by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from Germany, France and Sweden show that most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local ...

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the highest surface temperatures of any normal stars, so they emit copious amounts ...

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A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding toward us while our other neighbors are moving away from us. When you purchase ...

A huge clump of dark matter could be sitting on our galactic doorstep. Scientists found evidence of an invisible, massive nugget in the galactic neighborhood of the sun. The suspected clod of dark ...