According to ESA’s reporting on the study, the wave behaves like ripples expanding from a stone dropped into water, though in ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the universe's matter, remains invisible to modern instruments. However, a new ...

New measurements from deep-sky surveys reveal a huge structure pushing into the Milky Way’s outer regions, distorting stars ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...