When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Dark matter continues to confound us, so far defying every attempt to decipher it. According to a new study, clues may lurk ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding designated the Matthews family homestead, Milky Way Farm, as a prestigious ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal ... This video shows the 2.1 micron data taken on April 7, 2024.

NASA launched the SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins and search for water in the Milky Way. Meanwhile, fossils in Spain suggest a potentially new human species, altering our ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a Northwestern ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...

Within the Milky Way itself there are hypervelocity stars that ... this black hole structure could be between 251,000 and 1 million solar masses. Its average mass would be 600,000 times the ...

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

times the mass of the sun and is more than 1.3 billion light-years long, larger than the Milky Way. Quipu, as it is called, was discovered by an international team led by Germany's Max Planck ...