New research sheds light on how galaxies like the Milky Way grow and why their stars display unexpected chemical signatures, ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Astronomers say a star system 10,000 light-years away could put on one of the brightest shows in the night sky, with a ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

A new study using Auriga simulations explains the Milky Way’s chemical bimodality. Stars split into magnesium-rich and iron-rich sequences, revealing multiple evolutionary paths shaping our galaxy.

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...

Astronomers have long believed that the region around the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is one of the most ...