A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

"We can study a diverse population of supermassive black holes and their radio jets at different stages of their evolution." ...

The European Southern Observatory has published a spectacular photo of the central molecular zone of the Milky Way.

An international team of astronomers has employed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to investigate molecular gas in a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1387. Results of the ...

A baby sunlike star blowing a bubble of hot gas called an “astrosphere” was captured for the first time by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Read a sci-fi short story every month and join a virtual community of fellow science fiction fans! Using the world's largest radio telescope array, The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, ...

JWST observed Uranus for nearly a full rotation, charting the planet's upper atmosphere and magnetic environment for the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Six planets are linking up in the sky at the end of February, and most will be visible to the naked eye. It’s ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

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Dark matter is so pervasive throughout galaxies that its presence explains the stability and motion of stars in systems such as the Milky Way. For example, current models indicate that our galaxy is ...