Finding an Earth-like planet is a success for Project Blue. With so many possibilities out there, Alpha Centauri system may be the answer.
A team of scientists has discovered traces of oxygen in a galaxy located billions of years away. To be precise, the galaxy in which the oldest molecule of oxygen has been discovered is located 13.1 billion light years away.
A team of astronomers has discovered a strange molecule in interstellar space, located thousands of light years away, but within the Milky way galaxy. This molecule is expected to solve the biggest mysteries about life on Earth.
Weight measurements were made by determining the speed of dust cloud orbiting the galaxy that houses the black hole.
Only one-third of Americans can see the Milky Way from their homes.
The black hole powering NGC 1097 is 140 million times the mass of sun. Researchers used distribution and movement two molecules to estimate the mass of the black hole.
The NaSt 1 is Wolf-Rayet that is aging rapidly and is being stripped of its exterior hydrogen material.
Using metal levels in live and dead galaxies, researchers were able to conclude how long it takes for a galaxy to run of star-making fuel hydrogen.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has shown that Andromeda's halo is larger than earlier estimated.
Out sun arrived little late in the early days of the Milky Way, according to a new study. The study added that it only formed when the stellar version of a "baby boom" had almost fizzled out.
Analysis of data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey showed researchers our galaxy could be bigger than its currently known size.
The dwarf galaxy showed higher than normal gamma ray activity that has researchers intrigued.
The discovery of unique patterns attributed to primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background was actually caused by dust.
