Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

There are millions of galaxies in the universe, and while astronomers have cataloged many, some remain relatively unknown to ...

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

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

A breathtaking timelapse captured the Milky Way in all its glory, shining over Marathon, Florida, on March 3. The footage, ...

NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission is on a quest to track down cosmic reservoirs of frozen water and life-essential molecules in ...

Dark matter density in the Milky Way measured using pulsars Pulsar acceleration data reveals galactic gravitational mapping Study expands dark matter research beyond binary pulsars ...

When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. But as Sarah Wild discovers, its ...

Scientists have uncovered “Quipu,” the largest known galactic structure, stretching 1.4 billion light-years. This discovery ...

Star gazers in the Florida Keys were treated to some Milky Way magic on Monday. The timelapse video shows a<a ...

The ghostly ring Kýklos (from the Greek κύκλος, circle or ring) and the object WR16 both show the environment of rare and ...

The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.