A new research reveals a new high resolution map of the magnetic field lines in gas and dust swirling around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
New research suggests that, contrary to previous estimates, Andromeda galaxy isn’t much bigger than the Milky Way, and is practically our twin.
The Hubble Space Telescope shows a “sparkling jewel box full of stars,” NASA says, in the central bulge of the Milky Way, with more plentiful bright blue stars in the foreground.
An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the most extreme instances of magnification by gravitational lensing.
Astrophysicists have discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Researchers were able to detect objects in extragalactic galaxies that range from the mass of the Moon to the mass of Jupiter.
New ALMA telescope observations have uncovered the surprisingly clear chemical "fingerprints" of the complex organic molecules methanol, dimethyl ether, and methyl formate.
Results from the first data release of the Dark Energy Survey include eleven new stellar streams in the Milky Way galaxy.
Galaxy cluster ACT-CLJ0102-4915, or “El Gordo” contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns. It is the largest, hottest, and brightest X-ray galaxy cluster ever discovered in the distant Universe.
A new study by a team of international astronomers has provided the first direct evidence that supermassive black holes affect star formation in their galaxies.
The Hubble Space Telescope was used to capture imagery of NGC 5256 (also known as Markarian 266). The interacting galaxies are 350 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Ursa Major.
ALMA has revealed signs of eleven low-mass stars forming perilously close — within three light-years — to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, known to astronomers as Sagittarius A*.
Astronomers report that they have detected the second most distant dusty, star-forming galaxy ever found in the universe -- born in the first one billion years after the Big Bang. It is the oldest object ever detected by the LMT.
VLBA achievement nearly doubles the previous record for distance measurement within our galaxy.
Previously undetected matter was found in the form of gas filaments between galaxies, which is a major step toward explaining the structure of the cosmos.
Fast radio bursts were first detected in 2001. Since then, astronomers have found a couple of dozen FRBs, but they still don’t know what causes these rapid and powerful bursts of radio emission.
