Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to ...

Positrons—the antimatter counterpart of electrons—are created in high-energy cosmic processes. When normal matter meets its ...

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to build the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever attempted.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A University of Copenhagen team used stellar models and Gaia data to map neutrinos from Milky Way stars and predict the flow to ...

The study employed a technique the researchers call 'pattern matching', using Cepheid variable stars to effectively anchor the distances of the gas on the outer edges of the galaxy's spiral arms for ...

This week in space we've got some beautiful maps of both the galaxy and NASA's next asteroid target, 16 Psyche. The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to science and there's a planetary ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’ve probably heard of space telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb. They’re famous for giving us breathtaking ...

The 20-year 511 keV map from the INTEGRAL gamma-ray space telescope. (Yoneda et al., A&A, 2025) There's something wrong with ...

Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position ...