The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent observations could overturn this long-held assumption ...

motions and additional properties of more than a billion stars in our Milky Way and in our nearest galactic neighbors, the Magellanic Clouds. The third data release (DR3) of the Gaia mission ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...