NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope ... orbiting planet is racing through the Milky Way. Data from the Keck Observatory and ESA’s Gaia satellite indicate a high-speed celestial body that may ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

The CMZ spans almost 700 light years and contains some of the most dense molecular gas in the galaxy. Over the years, ...

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.

Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete ...

Scientists are investigating enigmatic phenomena observed at the centre of our galaxy. Telescopes are detecting mysterious ...

Scientists have discovered that a new form of dark matter could simultaneously solve two long-standing mysteries at the heart ...

Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the ...

The carbon monoxide, in particular, was interesting: it bore a powerful resemblance to the carbon monoxide seen in the planet ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

LETTER FROM MONTREAL — The night before Canada’s major party leaders were set to take the stage for the country’s first debate of the election cycle, they learned they’d be going on two hours earlier ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...