The astronomer used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to make the observations.

Astronomers have identified 20 ancient, metal-poor stars in the Milky Way’s galactic plane that appear to be remnants of a long-lost dwarf galaxy named “Loki.” The stars share nearly identical ...

A decades-old cosmic mystery has finally been cracked: the strange X-rays coming from the bright star gamma-Cas are caused by ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument spent five years observing the sky from Arizona. Now, researchers have a trove of ...

Possible evidence of the universe's first stars has been discovered thanks to the detection of an extreme helium signal.

Astronomers discover water-ice clouds on a cold exo-Jupiter planet, Epsilon Indi Ab, advancing the search for Earth-like ...

Scientists have mapped the immense Vela Supercluster, a colossal structure 300 million light-years wide concealed behind the Milky Way’s dense dust. In another study, researchers found evidence that ...

In the paper from 2024, the team looked at long-period objects that crossed the path of Neptune's orbit, finding that their ...

Astronomers have finally identified the source of unusual X-rays from the bright star gamma-Cas, resolving a decades-long ...

An international team of researchers analyzed 20 very metal-poor stars located within 6,500 light-years of the Sun and ...

The "edge" can be defined as the star-forming region, and in their paper, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, they very ...

Astronomers in Japan have recently launched what they say is the country's first organization dedicated to the search for ...