Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open clusters closely associated both in position and kinematics. They provide ...

Within the diameter of Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, the coincidence between the perijove distance and the Hill radius has a statistical likelihood smaller than 0.00004. In case the ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

The sighting of a bright red sphere racing out of our galaxy at extreme speed has handed NASA one of its strangest puzzles in ...

For over a decade, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has mapped a mysterious excess of gamma-ray light in the inner regions ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

One of the longest-standing mysteries in astronomy is why no alien civilisation has attempted to contact the green-and-blue world we call home. An expert has now offered a unique answer to this cosmic ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image ...

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars. NASA’s ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins using powerful supercomputer simulations have determined that the most likely explanation for a mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy involves collisions ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

The Milky Way 's galactic wave was spotted in mapping data from the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, which charted the positions and movement patterns of millions of stars with ...