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

A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

We live inside the Milky Way, yet most of us rarely stop to think about just how unusual it really […] ...

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director ...

Massive stars like these are also key players in the cosmic drama of gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time first ...

The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda. The study reveals how dwarf satellite galaxies align ...