U.K. science minister Lord Patrick Vallance told the BBC that they've developed a plan to phase out animal testing for ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant galaxy forming stars 180x faster than the Milky Way, revealing how early galaxies grew ...

Look up at the night sky and you might feel dwarfed by the glimmer of countless stars. Now shift that view downward, press ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

A new model sheds light on the long-standing chemical mysteries found in globular clusters, the ancient archives of the universe. An international collaboration led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, fr ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the heart of our galaxy that could signal unseen matter colliding — or perhaps ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins using powerful supercomputer simulations have determined that the most likely explanation for a mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy involves collisions ...