Astronomers are counting down to using the new Roman Space Telescope to scan the Milky Way for alien moons that might be ...

TheJames Webb Space Telescope has revealed that two mysterious objects from the early universe were not faint quasars as ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has received its first two-dimensional chemical map: the Hobby-Eberly Telescope's VIRUS ...

Astronomers calculated 703 forbidden emission transitions from doubly ionized manganese, identifying line ratios that could ...

A faint ribbon of stars around a distant galaxy has become the first globular cluster stellar stream ever identified beyond the Milky Way. Because the stars trace the galaxy’s gravity, researchers ...

A giant cloud of gas near the center of the Milky Way has surprised astronomers with its incredible chemical richness. Inside ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant progenitor to a galaxy supercluster ever. The discovery ...

New observations of the composition of distant galaxies offer insights into the earliest phases of the universe and confirm ...

Astronomers have detected an exceptionally faint hydrogen radio signal from billions of light-years away using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. Instead of finding galaxies one at a time, the ...

In May 2024, auroras spread into skies far beyond their usual range, appearing at unusually low latitudes around the world.

Astronomers have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to detect hydrogen gas located billions of light-years away, from a period when the cosmos was billions of years younger.