At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*," according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

The classic question, “What came first, the egg or the chicken?” has intrigued philosophers and scientists for centuries. A ...

Over the past few years, scientists have become obsessed with UFOs as NASA investigates the origins and technology behind the phenomenon.