How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its ...

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

A team at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many ...