Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around supermassive black holes, forming galaxies. Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies.

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

Scientists have discovered that strange radio pulses from the Ursa Major constellation originate from a pair of stars, a ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy ...

Astronomers uncover the closest supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, rewriting our understanding of ...

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method ... as they orbited a common center of gravity, completing one orbit every 125.5 minutes. The research team believes there are two ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

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