Astronomers find strange, tornado-like filaments of gas rotating around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

The CMZ is a region of clouds rich in dust and molecular gas that roils around the galactic nucleus. It measures up to 2,000 ...

A new study provides fresh insight into traditional acid-base chemistry by revealing that the mutual neutralization of ...

Skoltech researchers have theoretically investigated the wide range of molecules that oxygen and carbon atoms can form in ...

NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward ...

Astronomers may have discovered how water originated in the universe, challenging existing theories on star formation.

As astronomer Carl Sagan once said, we are "made of star stuff," as this research suggests, we may also be at the mercy of it ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...