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

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor.

The Sombrero Galaxy is too faint to see with the naked eye but easily visible through a modest amateur telescope, appearing ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...