The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula - a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light - ...

When zoomed in — and still in crispt detail — especially dim clouds can be seen in between the stars of the Milky Way as well. They are called “galactic cirrus” as they evoke the shape of ...

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

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...

The Church's Steve Kilbey takes a deep dive into the making of their Starfish single "Under the Milky Way" on The Story ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...