Scientists have identified an accelerator that produces the highest-energy protons in our galaxy, a finding that could clarify the nature of the fast-moving particles filling the space between stars.

Scientists have discovered a unique planetary system located 71 light-years away, featuring a red dwarf star orbited by a ...

Astronomers have identified erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar found naturally in raspberries, inside a cloud of gas and dust ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Binary star system supernova science just hit a milestone: a Stanford-led team using 16 years of NASA Fermi data confirmed ...

Artistic illustration of how the Milky Way’s disc may have shifted by more than 90 degrees. The faint outline shows its possible former orientation, while the surrounding stellar halo preserves clues ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planetary system 71 light-years away, where a Jupiter-sized world orbits a brown dwarf, ...

Andrea Ghez developed a way to peer through dust clouds and observe stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center ...

Mysterious high-speed "bullets"—clumps of possibly oxygen-rich gas traveling at up to 20 million miles per hour—have been ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a fairly large one in our part of the universe. In part, its size is thanks to several minor ...

A new study suggests astronomers may have been looking for alien structures known as Dyson spheres in the wrong places.