Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the ...

The center of the Milky Way is super bright because it’s packed with a lot of stars and a supermassive black hole. That black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is millions of times bigger than our sun! It ...

Experts are sounding the alarm about escalating space debris concerns and the urgent plan designed to prevent catastrophic disruptions to worldwide communications.

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

NASA observed GRB 250702B, a record-setting gamma-ray burst lasting days, likely caused by a black hole consuming a star, ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...