For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

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 ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four ...

People often feel tiny when they think about space, yet working out your cosmic address can make everything feel more […] ...

The Webb telescope has unlocked a mystery in an exotic star system located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth. Using ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four ...

From Herschel's star counts to Gaia's precision measurements discover how scientists mapped our solar system within the Milky ...