A stronomers have seen something they did not expect: an Einstein Cross with not just the standard four images, there was an extra one. This unprecedented present might allow astronomers to better ...

Where exactly are we in the Milky Way? This video maps our true cosmic address with Gaia data—central bar, spiral arms, dark-matter halo, and the Orion Arm where the Solar System lives—and explains ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

As the camera swept across a segment of the Milky Way's spiral arms, I suddenly found myself staring at the screen—are the stars in these spiral arms packed like commuters during rush hour, or are ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...

UAH researchers, led by Dr. Chakrabarti, have used pulsars to detect dark matter sub-halos in the Milky Way for the first ...

According to Xinhua News Agency in Jerusalem (reporters Wang Zhuolun and Lu Yifan), a new study by researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology and other institutions has unveiled the origin of ...

The cluster, also called NGC 104, sits 13,000 light-years away. It is the second brightest globular cluster seen from Earth after Omega Centauri.

The white dwarfs reach speeds of almost 4x needed to escape the Milky Way’s gravitational pull ... faint white dwarfs we ...

In a preprint released in August 2025, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics reported a newly identified ...

The Milky Way, our warped spiral galaxy, spans 120,000 light-years and hosts over 200 billion stars, including our Sun. It's ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum plaguing the standard model of cosmology.