Researchers have just shed light on an essential component of our Galaxy. A discovery that could transform our understanding of the Milky Way and its history. New astronomical ...

The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

What did our ancestors think when they looked up at the night sky? All cultures ascribed special meaning to the Sun and the Moon, but what about the pearly band of light and shadow we call the Milky W ...

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A research team led by Assistant Professor Makoto Miyoshi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has ...

The Event Horizon Telescope's famous image of Sagittarius A* may depict an artifact, raising questions about the black hole's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

Brown dwarf candidates discovered in star cluster NGC 602, revealing cosmic mysteries beyond the Milky Way with Webb and ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...

Two years ago, the image of the Milky Way's central black hole wowed the world. Now a research team believes that it is "not ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

The photo of the day “Milky Way, Venus and Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS at Haleakala” comes to us via Jeanna Thacker. Send your ...