Using the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a powerfully magnetic neutron star in the Milky ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

A decade of observations cast doubt on the typical magnetar origin story, at least as it relates to SGR 0501+4516.

This hint was chased up by the European Space Agency's (ESA) star-tracking space telescope Gaia while it was building a detailed 3D map of 2 billion stars in the Milky Way. This revealed the ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

They cross-checked this data with the Gaia mission's 3D map of the Milky Way, which the ESA released in 2022, and found that SGR 0501+4516 couldn't have been associated with HB9, after all ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s ...