Space is wishing Earth a Merry Christmas from 2,500 light-years away! A NASA telescope combined with data from an X-ray gave ...

Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ...

"Black holes are not as destructive as we thought. It seems plausible that the detection of planets in the galactic center is ...