Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the outskirts of the Milky Way—the first direct evidence of star formation in such an ...

In A Nutshell Scientists have identified 6,594 solar twins, stars nearly identical to our Sun, in the largest model-driven catalog of its kind ever assembled. Each star was assigned an estimated age, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system, carries a chemical ...

Professor Dame Carole Jordan, who has died aged 84, was an astrophysicist recognised internationally as an authority on the ...

The exosphere is the outermost layer of a planetary atmosphere and is dominated by atomic hydrogen. Within our solar system, knowledge of exospheric composition, energy, and density distributions can ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

Abstract: The terahertz portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is perhaps the last largely-unexplored wavelength frontier for astronomical observations. It is also one of the most diagnostic, ...

Astronomers using the WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), a powerful new instrument mounted on the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma, have detected an unexpected, elongated structure of ...

Emma Marcucci works for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, as Executive Director of the Smithsonian STARS program, which is supported through private gifts and donations. Scholars widely agree ...

Universe Today says that scientists have found what could be the oldest known barred spiral galaxy. It was seen when the universe was about two billion years old. The discovery comes from data taken ...