The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

The space between galaxies is not empty. In a new map of the early universe, those “blank” stretches take on a faint, ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

"We are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their ...

Astronomy content creator Sunshine Nate visited Hawaiʻi to capture a rare planetary parade and blood moon eclipse. Along the ...

A research team has merged incomplete astronomical catalogs and collected the positions of 80 million galaxies in a new database.

The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

The discovery of the universe’s oldest stars, identified within our own Milky Way galaxy, marks a significant leap forward in ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...