Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence that the Milky Way is currently merging with a massive galactic structure hidden within ...

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth ...

A Canadian-led team of researchers has discovered a 'baby' galaxy cluster in the early universe surrounded by gas far hotter ...

How could the Universe form such dense and extremely hot structures only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang? This question ...

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colour). The dark, low-mass object is located at ...

Breaking with decades of haloscope design, the ALPHA and MADMAX collaborations are pushing the search for dark matter into a ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some amazing visuals that show us multiple galaxies and the activity of stars ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the scientists honed in on stars, all between one and eight times the mass of the sun, ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...