Astronomers have identified a new ultra-faint dwarf satellite companion of our Milky Way Galaxy.
A schematic showing the locations of Virgo I and other...
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), a low-frequency (80-300 MHz) radio telescope located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia,...
In this new image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of NGC 362, a globular star cluster located approximately 27,000 light-years...
Using data from the 64-m CSIRO radio telescope in Australia and the 100-m Max-Planck radio telescope in Germany, an international team of astronomers has...
Astronomers using ESO’s VISTA infrared survey telescope have discovered a dozen ancient stars, of a type known as RR Lyrae, in the vicinity of the center...
On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Galaxy, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has pinned down the precise position on the sky and...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Telescope have revealed the unusual mix of stars in the...
A researcher’s proposal for an ESA mission to return to the Moon could lay the groundwork for a full-surface geological survey from a permanent lunar...
Milky Way’s center is currently a quiet place. But it wasn’t always this way – a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org...
An international team of astronomers has identified a massive protostar, G11.92–0.61 MM1 (MM1 for short), which could help scientists understand how...
Ten trillionths of your suntan comes from beyond our Milky Way Galaxy, according to a team of astronomers led by Prof. Simon Driver from the University...
An international team of astronomers has found that there is a huge region in the inner part of the Galactic disc that is devoid of stars known as Cepheids.
An...
This image from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) is likely the best of the star cluster NGC 4833.
This image shows a small but bright globular...
An international team of astronomers led by Texas Tech University scientist Dr. Christopher Britt has spotted a very young star, called CXOGBS J173643.8-282122...
The gaseous halo of our Milky Way Galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at a similar speed as the Galaxy’s disk, which contains stars, planets,...
Astronomers using highly sensitive radio telescopes have detected, for the first time, a chiral molecule in interstellar space.
Astronomers applaud the...
This new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts blue stars in the constellation of Sagittarius.
This image, taken with the Advanced...
A multinational team of astrophysicists has recorded the ‘sounds’ from some of the oldest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This wide-field view is centered...
