The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

In the turbulent heart of the Milky Way, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, astronomers have uncovered a ...

"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." ...

Learn how ALMA gives astrophysics a front row seat to dynamic forces that shape the galaxy, called space tornadoes.

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

The research was led by Zhang Xiangyu, a Chinese doctoral student at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, in ...

They have already set out to test their hypothesis with future observations. The results reported here have been published as Xiangyu Zhang and Gregory M. Green, “Three-dimensional maps of the ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...