The Milky Way appears as a dusty band of stars, but by observing its radio frequencies a different view can bee seen, ...

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

New research suggests that dark matter may be the key to uncovering the mysteries of the Milky Way. The scientific team led ...

Look up at the night sky and you might feel dwarfed by the glimmer of countless stars. Now shift that view downward, press ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

Scientists who study comets are struggling to keep up with popular speculation that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent ...

Physicist Brian Cox dismisses alien claims about comet 3I/Atlas, calling it a natural interstellar relic and “a message from a dead world.” ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

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

First, a quick overview: the Milky Way is classified as a disk galaxy, with a broad circular collection of stars, gas and ...

During the 1950s, the study of the cosmos was revolutionized with the introduction of radio astronomy. In the ensuing decades, astronomers detected numerous bright radio sources that they designated ...

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