For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...
A new research effort involving simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies shows that the mysterious, unexplained extra gamma ...
A faint orange dot captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be the most distant galaxy ever detected. The ...
A team led by a University of Maryland astronomer discovered big complex organic compounds in ices beyond the Milky Way for ...
Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The ...
A chat with former Halo Wars creator James Miller about his new space 4X, which strikes a careful balance between realism and ...
Using ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have detected 87 stellar streams associated with globular clusters (GCs) in our Milky ...
Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...
At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...
Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted "seeds of life" molecules around a protostar 160,000 light years from Earth.
On October 18, 2025, the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at ...