The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

In 2017, astronomers found hypervelocity stars believed to have come from the Large Magellanic Cloud, supposedly kicked out ...

The Milky Way is glowing in ways it should not, and the usual suspects like stars, dust and black holes cannot fully account ...

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away in ...

On Dec. 20, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen emerged ...

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory maps the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, enabling 3D galaxy distribution studies, cosmic ...

I/ATLAS safely passes Earth as Avi Loeb says it ignored our planet, showing ’earthlings’ they are not the center of attention ...

Scientists have sought out and detected radio emissions from from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, all but confirming that it has natural origins.

"The cosmic dipole anomaly has thus established itself as a major challenge to the standard cosmological model, even if the ...