NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

New research, utilizing data from the Gaia space telescope, suggests that the Milky Way's last significant collision occurred ...

Known as "Myths and Leyendas," the festival at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston will have live music, dance performances and ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations Perseus and Taurus. An ancient supernova could be the culprit.

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

A new study led by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and with contributions from Radboud University's Marijke ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted — about as long as 140 Milky ...

Theoretical physicist Tracy Slatyer proposes new scenarios for dark matter and helped discover the Fermi bubbles.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and ...

Autumn brings longer, cooler and clearer nights. Summer’s bright constellations and dense star clouds of the Milky Way give ...

New observations from the MeerKAT radio survey suggest our estimates of the cosmic dipole effect are actually in line with ...

One of the observations is of supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ...