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

Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole ... Vikings Win Thanks to ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

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

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

The famous first picture of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy might not be accurate, a new study has claimed.

a surprisingly short amount of time for it to have become so orderly, they said. “Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way, that is strongly rotation-dominated, challenges our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.