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

While it was first detected in the 1970s, the Great Attractor is not easy to observe, as it is located behind a large plane of stars in the Milky Way, blocking direct views. However, scientists have ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

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

JWST images reveal galaxy rotation patterns that challenge the Big Bang model. Could the universe be spinning?

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

Within the Milky Way itself there are hypervelocity stars ... whose purpose is to map millions of stars to calculate their motion. There could, of course, be other explanations for the phenomenon.

Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian have found compelling evidence of the nearest ...