At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That's our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth ...

In this video, we explore the true structure of the Milky Way, from its central bar and supermassive black hole to its spiral ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Though Earth Must Die is pleasantly compact—I finished in just shy of eight hours—it's full of conundrums, and while it might ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Scientists have detected ancient microwave signals from the universe's early days. These signals, over 13 billion years old, ...

A monstrous galaxy named Inkathazo with plasma jets 32 times larger than the Milky Way has been discovered, challenging ...