Astronomers have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic ...

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

The scintillation arcs also gave us the velocities of the plasma layers. Far from being as expected, we discovered that one ...

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

The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...

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." ...

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

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

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