Astrophysicist Thomas Bensby is an observational astronomer of stars and the director of graduate studies at Lund ...

The Milky Way appears as a dusty band of stars, but by observing its radio frequencies a different view can bee seen, ...

New research suggests that dark matter may be the key to uncovering the mysteries of the Milky Way. The scientific team led ...

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

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

During the 1950s, the study of the cosmos was revolutionized with the introduction of radio astronomy. In the ensuing decades, astronomers detected numerous bright radio sources that they designated ...

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 ...

A team led by an astronomer from the University of Maryland has, for the first time, detected large complex organic molecules frozen in ice beyond the Milky Way, providing new insight into the ...

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an ...