To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius ... with ...

Here's how to witness North America's only total lunar eclipse of the year on March 13-14, 2025, its best until 2029.

Bananas contain potassium-40, a radioactive isotope. The levels are harmless and naturally excreted by the body. The ...

The accidental second discovery was made in the 1960s. At the time NASA was running Project Echo. This involved putting large ...

SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, has continuously pushed the boundaries of space exploration over the past 20 years. From the successful launch of the first ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our galaxy. As part of Expedition 72, Pettit and his team conduct crucial ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting measurable accelerations to Milky Way pulsars. They, in turn ...