The Milky Way’s story is written in chemical fingerprints and stellar streams, revealing a complex history of ancient mergers and a future trajectory toward a massive collision with Andromeda. For most of human history, people saw the Milky Way as a...

Uncovering the microbial diversity of wastewater. Exploring the hidden world of microorganisms in wastewater and sewage. Harnessing the power of microbes. How they can help treat wastewater and sewage. All living organisms require water as a...

These puzzling, crimson specks in the early universe appeared to hold impossibly large black holes. New research suggests they are actually young giants swaddled in dense, light-scattering cocoons that have misled astronomers for years. When the James...

ago, the motions of ancient stars act like a fossil record of past galactic upheavals. Beyond the familiar spiral disc, the Milky Way’s stellar halo retains debris from long‑ago mergers and torn‑apart dwarf galaxies, offering clues to how our galaxy...

close to the Galactic center, showing that these small stars can release energy in unexpected ways. The center of the Milky Way is one of the busiest places in the sky. Stars are packed tightly together, clouds of gas drift between them, and the remains...

radio detection. The mission successfully captured terrestrial shortwave transmissions and the faint background noise of the Milky Way, further confirming that Earth’s radio footprint is a significant hurdle to overcome. The next major milestone is the...

evidence yet of how the early Universe cleared its primordial cosmic fog. A dwarf galaxy barely a hundredth the mass of the Milky Way has provided astronomers with one of the clearest looks yet at a transformative epoch in the early Universe. By...

the galaxy is not rotating, previous calculations regarding its mass and its complex history of interactions with both the Milky Way and the LMC will require significant revision. The research team points to a combination of gravitational tidal forces...

Analysis of the NSF VLA data revealed that the magnetic influence enveloping GRB 260310A far exceeded contributions from the Milky Way or the intergalactic medium. Instead, the signal pointed to a dense, magnetized gas cloud surrounding the progenitor...

A soft X-ray flare in the galaxy NGC 3783 produced a rare, ultrafast outflow traveling at nearly one-fifth the speed of light, providing an unprecedented look at how supermassive black holes release energy into space. At the heart of the distant galaxy...

(JWST) is detecting gargantuan black holes at such early stages of cosmic history. In our current neighborhood, the Milky Way’s stars are spread so thin that direct collisions are virtually non-existent. However, the simulation indicates that in the...

Pa 30 supernova remnant. Astronomers have captured an unprecedented, high-resolution glimpse into the heart of Pa 30, the Milky Way’s only known remnant of its specific supernova classification. New findings published in The Astrophysical Journal reveal...

ancient stars in a nearby galaxy, showing that the earliest chemical history of the universe was not limited to the Milky Way. Some stars are more than points of light in the sky. They are time capsules. Formed billions of years ago, these stars still...

ESA’s Euclid spots 31 ancient quasars, including the oldest yet, revealing the universe’s first 670 million years. The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope has uncovered a set of 31 quasars that formed when the cosmos was only about 670 million...

volts—according to a paper in the Astrophysical Journal. This breakthrough sheds fresh light on the mechanisms by which the Milky Way creates and disperses its most energetic particles. A Galactic Engine Reaching PeV Energies Cosmic rays rank among the...

for the Sun’s surprisingly low silver content. By tracking how this scarce metal is forged and spread throughout the Milky Way, the authors provide fresh insight into the galaxy’s chemical evolution. Why the Sun Lacks Expected Silver Silver belongs to a...

identity and evolutionary path. WOH G64 is a massive star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. It is positioned approximately 160,000 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers have long identified it as one of the...

available before planets form. The molecule, identified as erythrulose, was found in a massive molecular cloud near the Milky Way’s central region, offering concrete evidence that complex sugars can arise naturally long before a planetary system...

identifying an elusive satellite galaxy known as Aquarius IV. Located roughly 359,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way, this ancient system is one of the faintest ever detected, offering a pristine, dark-matter-dominated window into the...

A newly discovered star orbiting Sagittarius A* could provide astronomers with a rare, groundbreaking way to measure the Milky Way’s central black hole. Astronomers have uncovered a celestial speedster named S301, a star hurtling through the extreme...