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." ...

A new image from the ALMA telescope shows the splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy in unprecedented detail, giving astronomers information about how stars and planets ...

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 ...

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 ...

A shimmering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 glows just 13 million light-years away, packed with hot young stars and rare stellar heavyweights. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Annibali, S. Hong A ...

The Palta, which gets its name from the local Veneto dialect for "mud", was first launched back in 2018. We tested that bike ...