New research suggests that dark matter may be the key to uncovering the mysteries of the Milky Way. The scientific team led ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

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, ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant galaxy forming stars 180x faster than the Milky Way, revealing how early galaxies grew ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster have more stellar siblings than we thought  — ...

Discovery will replace Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier, which was the world’s fastest supercomputer until 2024. Lux is something brand new.