The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...