Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

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

First, a quick overview: the Milky Way is classified as a disk galaxy, with a broad circular collection of stars, gas and ...

During the 1950s, the study of the cosmos was revolutionized with the introduction of radio astronomy. In the ensuing decades, astronomers detected numerous bright radio sources that they designated ...

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

A team led by an astronomer from the University of Maryland has, for the first time, detected large complex organic molecules frozen in ice beyond the Milky Way, providing new insight into the ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how the oldest and most mysterious star clusters in the universe—known as globular ...

Nevada’s Great Basin Star Train takes riders deep into the desert for a magical stargazing experience with telescopes and expert astronomers.

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