A new image from the European Southern Observatory reveals a gas cloud orbiting the Milky Way’s central black hole, offering ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a star located about 83 light years away. The newfound alien world is slightly ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of ...

A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown mini-galaxy leftover from an ancient cosmic crash. The "collision within a ...

Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. And the current rate of increase to a single average day—1.33 additional milliseconds per century—is ...

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising trait: They are unusually calm and quiet in terms of harsh radiation. This ...

Associate Professor Hanae Inami at the Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center specializes in astronomy, with a particular focus on galaxies beyond the Milky Way — a field known as extragalactic ...