Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...
High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.
Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...
Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...