Understanding the nature of our cosmos requires an accurate map of how galaxies are spread throughout it. For decades, ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to ...

CSIRO scientists have used a powerful radio telescope in Western Australia to map magnetic fields for clues to the galaxy's ...

The hunt is over. After more than 50 years of searching, astrophysicists at Northwestern University have finally discovered ...

Astrophysicists at Northwestern University have found the first direct evidence of wind blowing from Sagittarius A*, the ...

Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way, which contains the raw material from which stars and planets are made. Information from ...

Northwestern researchers used ALMA to map galactic-center carbon monoxide gas 100 times more deeply than ever before and ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest ...

This snapshot is just a small part of one of the most comprehensive and spectacular views yet of the universe — a web-like structure formed by millions of galaxies, stretching back to near the dawn of ...

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...

Every individual star visible to the unaided human eye belongs to the Milky Way galaxy. That claim rests on decades of ...