Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

NASA has shaken up the universe once again, this time through the discovery of the fastest object ever spotted, which ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...

More than a decade ago, scientists predicted our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring Andromeda would collide in four billion years, resulting in a “makeover” of our solar system. Now, that is unlikely — ...

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 ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

It's easy to imagine clone armies, lightsabers, and starships on some of these very real planets.

The planets are out in force through the month, with Venus, Saturn, Mars, and even Mercury all putting in an appearance. Weather permitting, you’ll be able to spot Venus — the brightest planet in our ...

NASA has released an interactive mosaic of infrared images of the Milky Way. It is the "clearest infrared panorama of our galactic home ever made," according to the voiceover in the video below. The ...