"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often ... light-years of the Milky Way. The new radio image helps to put in context the inset infrared image by the James Webb Space Telescope from 2023 of ...

With Katy Perry’s space odyssey this week and Donald Trump’s expressed plan to plant the American flag on Mars, we look at 12 ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone ... a surprising new filamentary structure in this mysterious region of space. Although the galaxy's central molecular zone (CMZ) has long been ...

Astronomers have discovered "space tornadoes" raging through the heart of the Milky Way in the vicinity of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The discovery ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules ...

What can merging star clusters teach scientists about the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies, which are smaller ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft ...