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

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

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Telescope to detect complex carbon molecules frozen around a young star, ST6, beyond our ...

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

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

Complex organic molecules, including methanol and ethanol, have been detected outside the Milky Way, using the James Webb ...

RIT researchers have revealed a new view of the Red Spider Nebula, as featured in ‘The Astrophysical Journal’ and by the ...