How can star populations help astronomers re-evaluate the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, also called ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

New mapping of the Milky Way has uncovered a vast family tree of stellar siblings, revealing that hundreds of star clusters ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

New measurements from deep-sky surveys reveal a huge structure pushing into the Milky Way’s outer regions, distorting stars ...

NASA's Fermi telescope may have detected the first direct hint of dark matter, observing an unusual gamma-ray glow near the ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...