For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

The red shade shows the atomic hydrogen gas content of the galaxy (figure 2), overlaid on the optical image (figure 1). The ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

Brazilian laboratory LIneA will process, analyze, and distribute part of the data collected by the supertelescope of Chile’s ...

Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features.

Utilizing advanced imaging techniques, researchers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories determined that the ...