The fleeting cosmic firework likely originated within the turbulent magnetosphere surrounding a distant neutron star. Fast ...

Discover how scientists traced a mysterious radio signal from an ultra-dense neutron star 200 million light-years away, ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

Gravitational lenses have been used previously to resolve individual stars in the distant Universe. Using the microlensing of ...

The tidal tail, which extends an impressive 1.27 million light-years from NGC 3785, is a result of gravitational interactions ...

Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams within the galactic halo of the Milky Way.

Discover the incredible journey of carbon atoms through space and their essential role in the creation of life on Earth.

Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), astronomers from Italy and Germany have observed a group of galaxies designated NGC ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Jan. 3, 2025 — Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That ...

For the first time, a new study confirms that circumgalactic medium (CGM) doesn’t just contain “hot gases enriched in oxygen” ...