Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

Pulsars are highly magnetised, rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radiation detectable from Earth, while many pulsars coexist in binary systems with companion stars. In these systems, the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The beautiful Chamaeleon I star-forming region as seen by the DECam instrument mounted on the ...

Using the Large Phased Array (LPA) and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

A vast molecular cloud where stars are formed was recently spotted − unexpectedly close to Earth. The formation, which the team of researchers who discovered it named "Eos" after the Greek goddess of ...

Postdoctoral Researcher, Pulsar Timing and Gravitational Waves, Swinburne University of Technology With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star ...

For over a decade, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has mapped a mysterious excess of gamma-ray light in the inner regions ...