For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

James Webb Space Telescope observes mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, revealing flare evolution, synchrotron cooling, and magnetic field measurements.

Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the universe's matter, remains invisible to modern instruments. However, a new ...

In my last column, I highlighted some of the best objects to view in the night sky through the end of the year. However, ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

Scientists from Japan's RIKEN research centre have created the most detailed simulation of the Milky Way ever made.