Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star," is still pending -- but the event will be occurring soon, according to astronomers. Stargazers watched the skies ...

Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly ... neighborhoods of supermassive black ... NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions Sep. 26, 2024 ...

The universe is thought to have experienced a rapid and exponential expansion in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

A team of astronomers has stumbled upon a humungous spiral galaxy, about five times more massive than our Milky Way galaxy and covering an area two ...

Astronomers studying a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way may have just witnessed how ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope ...

US scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery of the first ever ' black hole triple' system. This system, which breaks ...

New research from a professor at the Kansas State University that used imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope gives ...

Explore Earth and its relationships with a plethora of planets, stars and galaxies in its cosmic family, Laniakea, the ...