A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

Plans for a 230-mile transmission line threaten Nevada’s wilderness and have united hunters and wildlife groups ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of innumerable stars. But that's just the visible light. Observing the sky in ...

Natasha Hurley-Walker receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Silvia Mantovanini does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

Astronomers are grappling with a cosmic mystery as they observe a massive ripple, known as “The Great Wave”, sweeping across the Milky Way. This phenomenon, which is shifting stars by hundreds of ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky Way. Could dark matter be the answer? Reading time 2 minutes For all the ...

The Milky Way isn’t just spinning – it’s rippling. New data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope reveal a vast wave moving across our galaxy’s disk, displacing stars tens of thousands of ...