Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...

In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

It is clear that human beings, throughout history, have always had a constant curiosity to discover everything that happens ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

The mass required to eject these stars suggests a hidden black hole in the dwarf galaxy. The Large Magellanic Cloud orbits the Milky Way at 160,000 light-years away. Scientists estimate it will ...

These remnants exist in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Scientists say this region is perfect for studying stellar explosions in detail. Astronomers observed the ...

A supermassive black hole, estimated to be 600,000 times larger than the Sun, is making its way toward the Milky Way, according to a research team from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for ...

From supermoons to a total eclipse to the national park’s biggest and best-attended star parties, these are the must-see celestial shows of the year ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...