Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides ...

The century-old enigma of dark matter, this invisible substance thought to hold galaxies together, has just received a ...

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Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

ESA’s Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the Milky Way. Instead of forming alone, our galaxy merged with another large galaxy early in its life, around ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. — An astronomer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with an international team of researchers, have discovered that a neighboring galaxy — the Large ...