If humans survive, they may become a galaxy-spanning Type 3 civilization, with colonists evolving into distinct species ...

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

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest galaxy to the Milky Way which is about 2.5 million light-years away. It is the largest spiral galaxy in the Local Group, a group of galaxies that also ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

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

The original Mass Effect trilogy is pretty cool. But know what’s really cool? Mass Effect: Andromeda. Tomatoes down, please!

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 ...

Letters sent to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb reveal worldwide curiosity about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, reflecting growing public engagement with science and space exploration across ...

A new model sheds light on the long-standing chemical mysteries found in globular clusters, the ancient archives of the universe. An international collaboration led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, fr ...

In addition, our Milky Way is careening at 50 miles per second toward the Great Andromeda galaxy, one of some 50-plus such ...

The orbiter, which is part of the nation's ongoing Tianwen 1 mission for Mars exploration, took the images of the comet, ...