It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

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

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

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

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

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the University of California, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...