The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...

Euclid telescope data shows merging galaxies are 2–6 times more likely to host active supermassive black holes, revealing how ...

JWST spots a mature early-universe spiral as CERN reveals how light nuclei form in extreme collisions, challenging core ...

A strange X-ray signal spotted decades ago may be the result of a star that got attacked by two black holes, one after the ...

In the heart of a distant spiral galaxy, a cosmic storm has erupted. This event is unlike anything astronomers have seen ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Because dark matter is completely invisible to light, science had to look for clever new methods to spot it.

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a new kind of galactic portrait, revealing a luminous thread of gas and newborn ...