Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

On Sun., Sept. 8 at 2 p.m. Kevin Manning will provide a great program titled “Astronomy for Everyone” at the Sterling Public Library. During the program he will transport attendees on an ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

Nature Astronomy is a truly multidisciplinary journal for the field, representing — and fostering closer interaction between — all of the key astronomy-relevant disciplines, by publishing the ...

The launch of Nature Astronomy now enables much expanded coverage of the modern discipline: the journal welcomes research across astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science, with the aim of ...