The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image yet of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble previously ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

The cosmos conceals many secrets, and the latest discoveries continue to surprise us. Technological advancements, including ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can even devour other black holes. And now, one scientist thinks there’s a chance ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

When I get stressed, I look into the night sky and allow my mind to roam the infinity of space and time. It helps to get your ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

A new study of 263 galaxies has provided fresh evidence to support a theory that our universe is the interior of a black hole ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. These powerful objects sometimes enter active galactic nucleus (AGN) mode, where they pull in gas and ...

Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces H ave you ever stood by the sea and been overwhelmed by its vastness, by how quickly it could roll in and ...