Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...
How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...
Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...
The Event Horizon Telescope's famous image of Sagittarius A* may depict an artifact, raising questions about the black hole's ...
Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...
As dark sky sanctuaries grow in popularity, scientists are revealing more of the benefits of darkness—from repairing DNA to ...
A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...
"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies ... Using variable stars as distance markers and the giant telescope on Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble (then a young and little-known astronomer ...
The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...
Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...
Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful ...
How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...