Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky. Astrophotographer Osama Fathi captured a gorgeous view ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

Scientists have created the sharpest map yet of dark matter, offering new insight into the invisible force that holds galaxies together.

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

Astronomers evaluate how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory can detect and localize the next Milky Way core-collapse supernova using neutrino alerts and optical surveys.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

In this video, we explore the true structure of the Milky Way, from its central bar and supermassive black hole to its spiral ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory catalog provides over 400,000 sources and detailed X-ray mapping of the Milky Way center, ...

While two teams have ideas about what happened to yellow supergiant M31-2014-DS1, ultimately, it remains a mystery.

A monstrous galaxy named Inkathazo with plasma jets 32 times larger than the Milky Way has been discovered, challenging ...

The Ring Nebula, a well-known celestial structure in the Milky Way, presents astronomers with a mystery: a bar-shaped cloud ...