The nights surrounding Aug. 29 are a great time to spot the stars of the famous 'Summer Triangle' asterism, bisected by the glowing band of the Milky Way, with an early-setting crescent moon providing ...

A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the ...

The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

The Milky Way rises in the southern sky during an astrophotography workshop at Fort Griffin State Historic Site June 7, 2024.

A groundbreaking study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center of ...

As the temperature dropped, the vast night sky became a stage for distant planets and the steady glow of thousands of stars.

Set on a slow-motion collision course with the Milky Way, though not for another 4.5 billion years,Andromeda helps astronomers learn more about how galaxies form, evolve, and interact.Beyond ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The white band of light across the night sky that we call the Milky Way was poetically described long before Galileo ...