Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

A 3.5-gallon volume of deep space, specifically within the Milky Way's Orion-Cygnus Arm, would contain approximately 4 million neutrinos and about 13,000 gas atoms, predominantly hydrogen and helium.