The Ursa Minor Dwarf is a small galaxy, a loose aggregation of stars, and a satellite of the Milky Way. Its gravitational ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

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W hen astronomers first spotted Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, it caused a little excitement. The group of stars at the edge of the ...

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

A recent study carried out by Ohio State University proposes that magnetar flares, immense explosions in space, could be a ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights a contradiction in our understanding of alien life: despite ...

SETI combines cutting-edge radio astronomy, data science, and planetary research in a global effort to detect signs of ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

Scientists found a fast-scattering star cluster called Ophion. Unlike usual clusters, it shows chaotic motion and breaks ...