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

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail ...

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

The team found the strange readings when they analyzed observations by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA ...

Some big sci-fi names are making their return to the gaming landscape this year, with Halo: Campaign Evolved and Dawn of War ...

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.

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

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

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

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...