A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Astronomers produce the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Astronomers have analyzed the images collected by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to investigate a galactic open cluster ...

When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare four-star star system in which one star orbits three others that are interconnected. A new ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

Blue Skies Space Ltd has revealed the 'first light' images just captured by the world's first privately funded space science ...

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) astronomers have discovered an ...

A new study shows that some of the largest and most powerful stars in the universe are producing incredibly tiny particles of carbon dust—material that could one day help form new planets. The ...

The largest stars in the universe live the life of a rock star. If that is the case, ​the one named WOH G64 might be considered the stellar equivalent of Jimi Hendrix.