Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society used advanced computer simulations to test whether major ...

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

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

PD Dr Philipp Girichidis at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and ...

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

Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet drifting alone through the Milky Way, detected briefly by bent starlight, ...