Long-held assumptions about what lies at the center of the Milky Way could be incorrect, as new international research ...

CSIC-INTA and using modelling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, has uncovered an unprecedented richness of small organic molecules in the deeply obscured nucleus of a nearby galaxy, ...

I’m forever grateful to NASA for giving me an amazing 10 years. After four to five years in astrophysics, I was able to go to ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

The UK government is set to slash its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics by 30 percent in a move branded as ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

Eliza Frankel, a University of Wyoming Ph.D. student studying physics and astronomy, was one of seven graduate students honored with the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award at the 247th ...

Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen ...

Shapley’s award of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics will be presented at the 249th AAS Meeting, Jan. 10-14, ...