Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...
Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding designated the Matthews family homestead, Milky Way Farm, as a prestigious ...
Recently, over 20 passionate photographers from YL Camera and Sony set off on a three-day, two-night Milky Way photography ...
Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...
The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.
The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
There are millions of galaxies in the universe, and while astronomers have cataloged many, some remain relatively unknown to ...