Researchers from the South Pole Telescope project team looked deep into the center of the Milky Way, discovering powerful, surprising bursts of light from two accreting white dwarf systems.

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York​, who is credited with pioneering contributions to ...

New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part by ...

New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier studies suggested, based on a large survey of nearby galaxies.

A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way ever produced, an enormous patchwork ...

A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...