To the naked eye, the Milky Way (the Vía Láctea) is a path of pale white light ... The European Southern Observatory’s ...

To the naked eye, the Milky Way (the Vía Láctea) is a path of pale white light ... The European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). However, this new ...

American astronomer Dr. Frank Drake came up with an equation in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

University of Arizona astronomers are discovering unexpected information about one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Astronomers say they've found an "interstellar tunnel" near our solar system that potentially leads to the vicinity of other ...