The “most pristine” star ever seen may have just been discovered at the edge of the Milky Way. It could be the direct ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...
An MIT astronomy class has found three of the oldest stars in the universe lurking right outside the Milky Way. The stars, about 30,000 light-years from Earth, are in the galaxy's "halo," the cloud of ...
An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...
This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers captured a spectacular new image of the Milky Way across a wide range of radio ...
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The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...
A Milky Way doppleganger discovered in the early universe suggests some key physical ingredient is missing from cosmological models. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...
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To find the universe’s oldest stars, you must look for the ones with low chemical abundances and a retrograde orbit. That’s what a group of students in a class of MIT professor of physics and division ...
"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...