Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

Learn about NASA's SPHEREx mission, which will launch on March 4, 2025 to study the universe's early history and search the ...

The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy of our own Milky Way, harbors a heretofore unconfirmed supermassive black ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

The Milky Way. How big do you think the Milky Way galaxy would be if the Sun was 0.0015mm in diameter? Guess by posting in ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

NASA’s newest space telescope designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way will have to wait a bit ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...