Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

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 ...

Physicist Brian Cox dismisses alien claims about comet 3I/Atlas, calling it a natural interstellar relic and “a message from a dead world.” ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

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

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

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 ...