The Local Hot Bubble was first suggested over 50 years ago, with scientists theorising that a series of supernovas - massive ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

(As a side note with a faith connection, another historical name for the Milky Way has been the Way of St. James.) Now we ...

(As a side note with a faith connection, another historical name for the Milky Way has been the Way of St. James.) Now we think of it as “our” galaxy, because astronomers have discovered that it is ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though ...

The results of our study provide the first solid evidence that globular clusters formed through multiple star-formation ...

"Very little is known about what causes the formation of magnetars," researcher Kritti Sharma said. "Our work helps to answer this question." ...

Taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the display is a composite of 800,000 frames, showing supernova bubbles and remnants ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...