A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...
Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...
Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... obtained from the planet. The work indicated ...