High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.
The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...