Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Scientists detect oxygen in GHZ2, a galaxy located 13.4 billion light-years away, revealing intense star formation and low ...

A remarkable new study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered shocking details about a star-forming region ...

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Using high-resolution images captured by Hubble, combined with ...

Spoiler warning: Below there will be information about today's New York Times Strands puzzle.

The European Space Agency's Gaia telescope has provided data to further scientists' understanding of the Milky Way galaxy ... a big piece of the stellar puzzle." ...

In this new work, the scale of the simulations demanded a computational effort comparable to running 140,000 computers at the ...

Evidence from old NASA and ESA data suggests magnetar flares may have created heavy elements in the early universe.

To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman - NASA's first chief astronomer and the namesake for the ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and one ...

“It’s a fun puzzle that hasn’t actually been solved ... for up to 10 percent of all elements heavier than iron in our galaxy: giant flares launched by magnetars. Magnetars are neutron ...