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.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is ...

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

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

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.

Scientists have identified erythrulose, a sugar that occurs naturally in raspberries, in a dust-and-gas cloud near the Milky ...

According to a paper led by astrophysicist Kathryn Kreckel of Heidelberg University in Germany, the Galactic center lobe is ...

An accelerator of the highest-energy protons in our galaxy has been identified; it could help scientists better understand ...

The planet LHS 1140 b lies in its star’s habitable zone, which already made it a prime candidate as a possible host for life ...

Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the ...

Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as ...