NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

T he European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and able to scan the sky, so it has decided to nominally end science operations ...

The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

Always good to see you. So help us understand more ... is an awful lot about the early formation of things like the Milky Way Galaxy in ways we have never seen before. The James Webb Telescope ...

Always good to see you. So help us understand more about this Firefly Sparkle Galaxy and why it's so important. Well, Geoff, if you could imagine a baby picture of our own galaxy, the Milky Way ...

The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal for Astronomy to a University of Oxford professor.

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

In the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, astronomers can observe stars one by one. But for galaxies billions of light-years away, the stars appear blended together due to ...