Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

The outer space is a fascinating place that will neve cease to amaze us, with incredible views that gives us a perspective of ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

That’s exactly what unfolded in a project led by Dr. Veselin Kostov of the SETI Institute and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...