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

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 ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.

Learn about NASA's SPHEREx mission, which will launch on March 4, 2025 to study the universe's early history and search the ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive ...

What they found revealed a population of dwarf galaxies that are quite unlike the ones circling the Milky Way. Some 2.5 million light-years away, these space neighborhoods formed the bulk of their ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

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 ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...