For four decades, one of the most prominent features in radio images of the Milky Way sat without a convincing explanation.

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 ...

Scientists at NASA, utilizing the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have unveiled a significant finding that indicates the outer ...

The solar system sits inside a vast pocket of hot, thin gas. However, that nearby structure has never looked especially ...

Recent data collected by NASA’s Chandra Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton telescope indicate that the Milky Way may be significantly larger than previously imagined. Research published in the magazine ...

As our galaxy enters its “core season,” national parks, state parks, and more are bringing out the big telescopes to open your eyes to the night sky’s wonders. Under the Milky Way at the Rocky ...

Galaxies, like so many other astronomical objects, are surprisingly difficult to define. Here’s a hand-wavy attempt: a galaxy is a collection of stars, gas, dust and dark matter all held together by ...