An explosion seen in the cosmos in the early 1600s may actually be an "Alien Type Ia supernova", according to a new paper. In ...

Newly Discovered 'Jellyfish Galaxy' Stunned Astronomers and Could Reveal a Chapter of Galactic Evolution Data from the James ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

Vera Rubin fundamentally advanced our knowledge of galactic dynamics, laid the groundwork for dark matter research, and worked throughout her life to ensure women had a place in science ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Dr. Sven Buder is an astrophysicist and researches the night sky in Canberra — with a particular focus on so-called galactic archaeology. In this interview, Buder talks about his journey from ...

New research published by Michigan State University astrophysicists could help scientists answer a century-old question: Where did galactic cosmic rays come from? Cosmic rays—high-energy ...

Astronomer and astrophysicist Frank Drake designed the map, ... It also establishes the 2-dimensional galactic plane—the plane in which the majority of our disc-shaped galaxy's mass lies.