Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Jubett ...

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That's our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding, Carolyn Matthews Eaglehouse of Milky Way Farm, Chester Springs, and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most powerful telescopes ever made by NASA till now. It continues to help us set ...