For billions of years, the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxies—the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds—have followed a perilous journey. Orbiting...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have spotted signs of a “hot spot” orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black...
Near-real-time data on avian-solar interactions will help the energy industry understand risks and opportunities for wildlife at solar energy plants....
Using the Very Large Telescope and the radio telescope ALMA in Chile, a team of astronomers including researchers from the...
For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a vexing problem regarding the weather in outer space: At unpredictable times,...
Astronomy has a blind spot in the area of far-infrared radiation compared to most other wavelengths. A far-infrared space telescope...
With the help of detailed observations, astronomers have managed to get a first representative glimpse of the numerous young stars...
A glowing blob known as “the cocoon,” which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the...
Galactic superwinds—large outflows of gas created by a combination of supernova explosions and stellar winds—are closely connected to a galaxy’s...
When astronomers use radio telescopes to gaze into the night sky, they typically see elliptical-shaped galaxies, with twin jets blasting...
“To see a world in a grain of sand,” the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an...
Could one of the biggest puzzles in astrophysics be solved by reworking Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity? A new study...
