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A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...

Astrophysicist Thomas Bensby is an observational astronomer of stars and the director of graduate studies at Lund ...

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 ...

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

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

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

A new model sheds light on the long-standing chemical mysteries found in globular clusters, the ancient archives of the universe. An international collaboration led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, fr ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...