The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

The elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large galaxy cluster to Earth, the Virgo Cluster. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Mark Ozboyd is obsessed with waterfalls. On a dark, new moon night in late August of 2023, the intrepid 23-year-old and a friend hiked and scrambled nearly two miles into a national forest in north ...