When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...

Dark matter continues to confound us, so far defying every attempt to decipher it. According to a new study, clues may lurk ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

In the ongoing quest to understand dark matter, researchers are now wondering if a strange phenomenon occurring at the heart ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

A new study suggests that dark matter could be shaping cosmic chemistry, with a proposed self-annihilating dark matter ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...