At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

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

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km elevation? This image captured from the International Space Station gives a ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

Credit: Don Pettit Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km elevation? This image captured from the International ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

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