Such hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for star formation. Therefore, these cold gas structures are key to the conditions that enable star formation and are of ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

Gupta explained that hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for the formation of stars.

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

Our own Milky Way has a 4 million solar mass black hole – Sagittarius ... The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), founded in ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.