The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these crucial elements come from ...

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every ...

Our solar system is a passenger on a galactic rollercoaster. Part 2 reveals how the Sun, carrying Earth, orbits the Milky Way's core at 491,000 mph, completing a circuit every 230 million years. We ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

It seems like almost yesterday that a teacher told me when I was very young, that the Milky Way was the very end of our ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Scientists observed a massive, rotating filament consisting of galaxies, gas, and dark matter in the cosmic web, located 140 million light-years from Earth. This structure, assessed using the MeerKAT ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...