Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

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

An artist’s impression of the Milky Way as viewed from above ... “It’s something that is now underpinning almost all of astronomy,” said Anthony Brown, an astronomer at Leiden University ...

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

Retrieving dust information from 130 million spectra This is the kind of information used by Xiangyu Zhang, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ... in the Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...