Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

That's right, billion with a "b." It's also believed to be a whopping 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the early universe. Credit:ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin ...

The black hole spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe is also a whopping 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

A glowing galaxy and a dying star: Hubble captured this stellar explosion in NGC 3285B, 137 million light-years away, offering new insights into the expanding universe.

NASA has unveiled a dazzling new collection of cosmic images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing spectacular stars and galaxies in unprecedented detail.

Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided with another black hole in just the past 10 million years. At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light ...

“Since GX 340+0 is on the other side of the galaxy from us, XRISM’s X-ray observations are a unique probe of sulfur in a large section of the Milky Way.

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

An artist’s concept of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Scientists at Durham University used powerful supercomputers and fresh math tricks to peer into the cosmic unknown. What ...