At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Dark matter continues to confound us, so far defying every attempt to decipher it. According to a new study, clues may lurk ...

BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...

A new study suggests that dark matter could be shaping cosmic chemistry, with a proposed self-annihilating dark matter ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it’s called ...

SPHEREx will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies, as well as search the Milky Way for water and organic molecules essentials for life as we know it.

A new study looking at observations by the JWST of the early universe has thrown up a new and intriguing mystery; the majority of galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This finding, ...

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

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