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An international team of scientists has found a way to recover the birth places of stars in our Galaxy.

The sky gets a new reference frame. On 30 August the International Astronomical Union adopted the International Celestial Reference Frame 3 (ICRF-3) during their general assembly in Vienna, Austria.

New research finds that magnetic waves are an important factor driving the process of star formation within the enormous clouds that birth stars.

The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, can be so bright they outshine their host galaxies.

Energy-starved microbes may be the force that causes huge amounts of carbon to be stored in deep soils, according to a new study.

Water trapped in dust grains from which the Earth formed can explain the current large amount of water on Earth.

Machine learning algorithms applied to Listen data from the Green Bank Telescope find new pulses from the mysterious repeating source FRB 121102. Machine learning algorithm also helping Listen search for new kinds of candidate signals from extraterrestrial intelligence.

Scientists studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their existence points to an early planetary rearrangement in our solar system.

Revealing Solar System Time Capsules, Breaking Engineering Barriers

A study of a songbird and a bacterium that infects it has revealed how species in conflict evolve in response to each other.