Astronomers have for the first time spotted multiple complex organic molecules—the raw ingredients of life—locked in ice ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

The new radio portrait of the Milky Way is the most sensitive, widest-area map at these low frequencies to date. It will ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms of the Milky Way over more than 4 billion years, according to new research.

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, mapped a mysterious form of matter in our galaxy that had remained invisible until now.

They're important to scientists because they're the chemical precursors to the molecules that build life, such as amino acids ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

While the comet poses no threat to the Earth, its uniquely positioned trajectory and origin have caught the attention of ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.