Researchers unveil a method using stellar chemical compositions to map hidden structures in the Milky Way, enhancing our understanding of Galactic dynamics.

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand ...

The first generation of stars that were born in the universe are a mystery. We can estimate when they existed and even how ...

Astronomers have observed an ultrafast outflow (UFO) forming immediately after a black hole for the first time in human ...

When Cornell built the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico more than 60 years ago, it was the world's largest. Now, ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

Neil deGrasse Tyson gave a rousing defense of scientific principles in his characteristic brash way during his Purdue ...

Astronomers discovered that the Milky Way isn’t just drifting through space — it’s being dragged toward an unseen mass with the force of 1,000 trillion suns. For decades, the Great Attractor was ...

Record-breaking ultrafast outflow (UFO) winds from a supermassive black hole flung matter across the universe close to the speed of light.

Astronomers have identified a cosmic filament containing 280 galaxies spinning together, challenging previous models and offering new insights into galaxy formation.