A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our bodies, our planet, even the entire cosmos. These so-called neutrinos are ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory catalog provides over 400,000 sources and detailed X-ray mapping of the Milky Way center, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society used advanced computer simulations to test whether major galaxy crashes or slow star birth created a strange split in magnesium and ...

Hoping for a glimpse of the Milky Way? These user-friendly apps help stargazers learn more about objects in the sky, check ...

Bogong moths are one of the only recorded animals, besides humans, to use the stars for navigation. Read here to learn how ...

A monstrous galaxy named Inkathazo with plasma jets 32 times larger than the Milky Way has been discovered, challenging ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

This is the reality for astronomers today, who are capturing faint signals that have traveled for over 13 billion years to reach Earth. These signals originate from a time when the universe was still ...