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

One key characteristic of a supermassive black hole is the duo of the extragalactic jets of material that form around its ...

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and ...

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

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

According to the researchers, Sagittarius A* is like a powerful engine that sucks matter now and then and spits it out at ...

Most of the exoplanets we've discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn't because red dwarfs are somehow special, simply that ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky, may have a secret sunlike companion that drives the star’s mysterious ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Organisms on Earth living deep underground or at the bottom of the sea may give us an idea what alien life without a ...

A distant star has a dead star companion lurking in its vicinity that could be a monster-massive white dwarf, raising the ...