Right at the brink of a black hole, gravity twists space and time so violently that ordinary physics starts to fall apart.

BERLIN -- Research scientists at the German Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have identified "good candidates for some of the earliest ancestors of our Milky Way." The results have been published in ...

The final full moon of 2025 passed already, but the new year has plenty of spectacular moons coming up. Here's when to view ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Scientists have sought out and detected radio emissions from from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, all but confirming that it has natural origins.

A brisk shift greets the morning hours. With the flamboyant Sun swanning into Capricorn at 10:03 AM EST, we can choose ...

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every ...

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the galaxy ...

In a breakthrough that could rewrite astronomy textbooks, Indian researchers have discovered a massive, perfectly structured spiral galaxy from when the Universe was just 1.5 billion years old. Named ...

Astronomers have created a new colorized radio view of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Astronomers in Australia have created the largest and ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from ESA's Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about these ...