They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail every second.

Now, according to new research published in Science, astronomers have managed to weigh a rogue planet for the first time. The ...

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere – trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That's our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening ...

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...