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

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

The enormous size of the Milky Way glows in the background over the Earth's curve, providing the massive scale of our home galaxy and a stunning view of our home planet from space. Don Pettit's ...

An international of team astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dus ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way ... with the our planet in 2032 have ticked ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy ... gobbled up a planet a few hundred ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Astronomers have observed a flare of light near Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy ... hole may have gobbled up a planet a few hundred years ago ...