Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

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

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

The size of the universe depends on its shape, with possibilities ranging from finite and spherical to flat or even infinite.

Scientists estimate over 100 billion galaxies in the universe, each unique in shape and size, revealing the vastness of cosmic creation.

In the heart of the Milky Way is a black hole millions of times more massive than our sun, but does that mean we're destined ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters and galaxies. These short-lived giants not only forged the ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson ...

It's almost become expected that many space telescopes and probes can have "extended missions." Both Voyagers are still ...

A team led by an astronomer from the University of Maryland has, for the first time, detected large complex organic molecules frozen in ice beyond the Milky Way, providing new insight into the ...