"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Strange events at the heart of the Milky Way could point toward a new dark suspect that annihilates to influence the ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.

Lior Shamir, a computer scientist in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, published a study of ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

NASA launched the SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins and search for water in the Milky Way. Meanwhile, fossils in Spain suggest a potentially new human species, altering our ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...