Ever since the Gaia satellite began mapping the Milky Way in three dimensions with the highest precision yet, we’ve been...
The mystery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) continues to fascinate astronomers. No one is quite sure what’s behind these super-short,...
The birth of a star is a wild and magnificent thing. It’s also momentous, taking place over millions of years,...
4.5 billion years ago, when the Solar System was still forming, particles from our Sun’s solar wind probably got caught...
A new technique for determining the ages of stars in the Milky Way has given us tighter constraints for an...
If you’re a fan of titanium, you should head to the nearest supernova. You’ll get more than enough of it....
A spectacularly brilliant flare of light from over 700 million light-years away is turning out to be a gift that...
A red giant star 16,000 light-years away appears to be a bona fide member of just the second generation of...
Voyager 1, having spent over 43 years zooming away from Earth since its 1977 launch, is now a very long...
Large amounts of gas are sometimes funneled to a galaxy’s nuclear regions, with profound consequences. The gas triggers starburst activity...
A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday...
In a galaxy cluster called Abell 3376, some 600 million light-years from Earth, one galaxy has an active supermassive black...
