The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.

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

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive black ...

Not only can you camp for a few days, enjoying the peace and solitude of nature, but this park in Florida also happens to be one of the best places to snag a glimpse of the Milky Way, too. Since ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our galaxy. As part of Expedition 72, Pettit and his team conduct crucial ...

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New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

Moreover, the model accounts for the gravitational influences acting on the Oort cloud, both from within our solar system and from external sources like other stars and the Milky Way galaxy’s ...

When researchers used Nasa's Pleiades supercomputer to simulate these forces, it modelled the Oort cloud as containing an inner structure similar to the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy.

The Milky Way galaxy is packed with hydrogen atoms, and these atoms are constantly emitting 21 cm radiation. The best part is that this radiation can travel long distances through the interstellar ...

the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, released to the public in May 2022. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in ...