One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...

When it comes to finding baby, still-forming planets around young stars, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Deep within the confines of Germany’s prestigious Max Planck Institute, an elite team of astronomers hunch over observations from a long-dormant satellite, painstakingly piecing together a ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...

The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

After surviving the Kosovo War and witnessing her first solar eclipse as a child, UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. student ...

A new study suggests mysterious water worlds may be manufacturing their own oceans through chemical reactions deep within ...