In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

An Indian astronomer captured an awe-inspiring time-lapse video showcasing Earth's rotation from the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Ladakh. Despit ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

The time-lapse video features Earth's rotation from sunrise to sunset, along with the beauty of the Milky Way captured from ...

Ladakh is located within the Himalayas and the Karakoram Range. Its rugged terrain, with high-altitude deserts and sparse ...

The Fermi Bubbles, massive shockwaves from a black hole eruption, still expand over the Milky Way. This event reshaped our ...