Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way, which contains the raw material from which stars and planets are made. Information from ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...

Growing neurons rely on chemical cues to find their targets, but new research shows that the brain’s physical properties help ...