New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit; ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

Gravitational lenses have been used previously to resolve individual stars in the distant Universe. Using the microlensing of ...

According to a new study, the carbon atoms that form part of all life on Earth may have traveled outside the galaxy first.

The galaxy Dragon Arc was observed along the line of sight to the galaxy cluster Abell 370, which acts as a cosmic magnifying glass.

Astronomers armed with exceptionally detailed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images have discovered dozens of ancient ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have imaged individual stars in the Dragon Arc galaxy thanks to ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.