Two jets, shooting in opposite directions, compose the biggest lightning bolt ever seen in the sky — about 140 times as long as our own Milky Way galaxy is wide, and more than 10 times the distance ...

A recent discovery of a magnetic halo surrounding the Milky Way galaxy could significantly alter our understanding of ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

New research, utilizing data from the Gaia space telescope, suggests that the Milky Way's last significant collision occurred ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

A new study led by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and with contributions from Radboud University's Marijke ...

"Early dark energy is one possible addition to the standard cosmological model that would preserve its many successes and resolve the Hubble tension," team member Michael Boylan-Kolchin, a professor ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

To the unaided eye, its translucent clouds are simply beautiful splashes in the night, their grandeur inspiring hundreds of creation myths. But a telescope reveals subtle structures within and outside ...

The Love’s Planetarium, which opened Friday, is the only one of its caliber in North America. With its eight 4K projectors ...