Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

I n 2022, astronomers made history when they unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. But you wouldn’t tell from this benign image just how ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

The CMZ is a region of clouds rich in dust and molecular gas that roils around the galactic nucleus. It measures up to 2,000 ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

which helped them pinpoint the edge of our galaxy, at about 950,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. “In many analyses of the Milky Way halo, its outer boundary is a fundamental ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...