Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

Using machine learning to analyse data from the Event Horizon Telescope, researchers found the black hole at the centre of our galaxy is spinning almost as fast as possible ...

Beyond the fact that this is the third known interstellar object to have entered our solar system, “we don’t know very much,” ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

With more Dark Sky Places than anywhere else in the world, Utah’s high deserts are giving visitors front-row seats to the ...

In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation. Top right: At 500,000 ...

On moonless spring nights in Australia, a billion tiny voyagers take to the sky. They lift from the parched lowlands, propelled not by instinct alone, but rather most remarkably by a map written in ...

The collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies that scientists believed was inevitable has a much lower probability than previously thought. The Associated Press reported Monday that ...

The Milky Way galaxy is around 100,000 light-years in diameter, containing our solar system and many other objects. Our solar system orbits the galaxy's center, taking about 250 million years to ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...