ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

Read The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a discovery that could finally solve the mystery of the Universe s missing ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.