Scientists in China have developed an AI model that analyzes stellar data from different telescopes, helping astronomers combine survey data.

Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron ...

A new photo taken by the world's most powerful telescope shows a 6-quadrillion-kilometre span of our galaxy.

Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its ...

Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Straight to the dome.

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Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

Key points Telescopes collect light that was emitted a long time ago and is only now reaching us on Earth. This means telescopes see the Universe as ...

Space rarely gives up its secrets easily. For instance, what looks like a single ...

CSIC-INTA and using modelling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, has uncovered an unprecedented richness of small organic molecules in the deeply obscured nucleus of a nearby galaxy, ...

The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.