The Messier 82 (M82) galaxy is undergoing a violent star formation process, with a star production rate ten times that of the Milky Way. Detailed images captured by the Hubble Telescope reveal massive ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...

New Curtin University research has uncovered a striking link between the structure of our galaxy and the evolution of Earth's crust, showing its ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends ...

For generations, astronomers have pondered the origins of globular clusters, which are among the universe’s oldest and ...

This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a powerful explosion, orange dot at the center of the image, ...

At a wind farm in Zunyi, Guizhou province, summer nights are marked by clear skies and an expanse of stars. Several days of ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing ...

The signal, a gamma ray burst, kept repeating — which has never been seen before, and, according to astronomers, should be ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...