"The Sagittarius stream gives us an opportunity to recover part of the original galaxy's structure and compare it with present-day dwarf galaxies," said Prof. ZHAO Gang of NAOC, a co-corresponding ...

Earth have between just 4% and 25% of the oxygen that their stars are known to have produced. Scientists are not sure where ...

Astronomers using early data from Rubin Observatory have identified two previously hidden companions of the Milky Way. One is ...

Good morning, this is Abel. Today's highlight is the story of NASA's twin Mars probes, ESCAPADE, which will fire their ...

Galactic archaeologists are using precise measures and larger sample sizes afforded by new missions to tease apart minute differences between groups of stars, revealing the history of the Milky Way ...

Astronomers working mostly in Chile dated VVV CL001, a faint globular cluster buried behind dust near the galactic center, at ...

Nova dust formation in nova V488 Sge was detected in real time by the MIRAGE infrared camera at Kitt Peak, which recorded a 0 ...

We will describe the celestial phenomena that occur over the frozen continent and explain the best time to observe them ...

Somewhere in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, about twenty-five thousand light-years away, sits the anchor of ...

Gas swirling around the center of our Galaxy. The animation shows the gas at different infrared wavelengths, demonstrating ...

Computational astrophysics is the study of the phenomena that occur in space using computer simulations. This can involve modelling processes that take place over millions of years, such as colliding ...

Galaxies and clusters are the ensembles of stars and other astronomical objects bound together by gravitational forces. Galaxies are ordered into galaxy groups, which are in turn organised into ...