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

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

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

If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish ...

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

Stargazing can be as unpredictable as aurora-chasing, but once you’re settled under a dark night’s sky with a vast canopy of ...

A father-daughter duo cracked an 'alien code' sent by the ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter after a year of work.

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration managed to capture the 1st image of the Milky Way's black hole in what was a groundbreaking moment for astronomy. Now, they want to snap an even clearer view ...

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

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

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