We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—that dwarf galaxy ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way’s most important features cannot be ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

Stargazing dreams come true at this Pennsylvania park, with pitch-dark skies that reveal the Milky Way in stunning detail.