A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has long looked quiet, a dim and seemingly dormant presence ...

Ever stare into the night sky and wonder if we’re the main characters or just cosmic background noise? NASA’s latest 2024 findings suggest the answer might surprise you. This isn’t just pretty ...

Combining advanced stellar models with data from the ESA’s Gaia telescope, they not only gave a clearer picture but also ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the scientists honed in on stars, all between one and eight times the mass of the sun, ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

Astronomers analyzing the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS say new trajectory and composition data point to an origin deep within the Milky Way's central region, an environment marked by intense ...

Benita Albert brings us part two of the two-part series on the career of Bob Benjamin. His career interest in astronomy began soon after graduating from Oak Ridge High School. You will find it ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...

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