Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to ...
NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...
Astronomers 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 spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...
In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has ...
Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...