Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and destruction that shapes our galactic environment. Scientists may have unco ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

Researchers have unveiled a cosmic cycle where carbon, created in the explosions of stars, travels through space via a ...

Uncover the mystery of Omega Centauri: a stellar-mass black hole is responsible for the fast movement of nearly ten million ...

The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

The tidal tail, which extends an impressive 1.27 million light-years from NGC 3785, is a result of gravitational interactions between this galaxy and a neighboring one.

Luck has recently led to the discovery of several individual stars in extremely distant galaxies. 44 in a single galaxy, ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the ...

More than 40 new stars have been discovered - thanks to a telescopic magnification trick. It is believed to be the first time so many stars have been identified in one cluster. Physicists studying a ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...