How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

JK Rowling celebrated a UK Supreme Court ruling affirming that the legal definition of "woman" refers to biological sex, a ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

D2, Chopper and BB-8 are some of the best characters in the Star Wars franchise, but what makes them so lovable?

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

The rotating model, which does not break any known law of physics, suggests the universe could spin around once every 500 billion years. This would be far too slowly to detect easily, but enough to ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Images of the distant spiral galaxy are changing conceptions of the speed and process by which galaxies form.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...