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

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

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

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

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

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

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

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 ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...