The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round trip on a cosmic conveyer belt.

Now, Rigorer is reprising a fan-favorite colorway from the first model. The cosmic "Milky Way" colorway is making its return in the unmistakable purple and blue color scheme. Below is a detailed ...

youthful stars that have been observed zipping around the Milky Way's center at hypervelocities, the new study suggests. Moreover, because young stars are often accompanied by planets, this ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky Way star cluster. The new findings imply that, rather than a ...

Using data from the APOGEE survey, astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, the University of Vienna and Paris Observatory have reconstructed the properties of ‘hidden’ stars ...