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 ...

Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...

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

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will map the Milky Way using infrared observations, studying star formation, stellar evolution, star clusters, and hidden galactic structures over a two-year survey.

Researchers unveil a method using stellar chemical compositions to map hidden structures in the Milky Way, enhancing our ...

The Geminid meteor shower put on a dazzling cosmic firework show when it peaked overnight on Dec. 13 as shards of the solar ...

Astronomers usually detect black holes by looking for X-rays. When gas and dust fall toward a black hole, they heat up and ...

A skydiver leaping into the void with the Sun at their back, a sloth clinging to a barbed-wire fence, a microscopic tattoo on ...

After a year-long renovation, the Michigan Science Center reopened its planetarium Friday, showcasing technology upgrades and ...

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

The Flandrau Planetarium and Science Center on the University of Arizona campus celebrates its golden anniversary this ...