The galaxy's vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the ...

The center of the Milky Way is super bright because it’s packed with a lot of stars and a supermassive black hole. That black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is millions of times bigger than our sun! It ...

On a cool night in August, more than 100 people gathered in a dark corner on Frisco Main Street. The lights at the Frisco ...

The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

Tucked away in central Indiana, where cornfields stretch to meet the horizon and time seems to move at its own gentle pace, Frankfort offers retirees something increasingly rare in America: financial ...

Space news in 2025 is just wild. Every week, it feels like something new is happening—Mars rovers sending back weird photos, ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...

This article originally published at 'The BBQ Capital of the Milky Way Galaxy': Texans smoke out Kansas City praise. This ...