Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...
New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...
Imagine hearing a sound that began its journey before our galaxy even existed. That is what astronomers are doing now. They ...
Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...
This is the reality for astronomers today, who are capturing faint signals that have traveled for over 13 billion years to reach Earth. These signals originate from a time when the universe was still ...
Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...
The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and simulations is forcing astronomers to admit that many of those origin ...
Dark nebulas are notoriously challenging to capture because they emit little to no light of their own. Meyer imaged LDN 1245 ...
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...
Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...
PD Dr Philipp Girichidis at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and ...
The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...