Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

The image of Zhúlóng shows its spiral arms, an old central bulge and a large star-forming disc, which resembles the Milky Way. An international ... to reveal a very different picture.

First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way's core ... is that dark matter particles could be very light, with masses just a few million ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

From the Nevada desert to the Oregon coast, these heritage railroads allow you to see the stars while rolling through the ...

In an interview with ThePrint, physicist Yogendra Narain Srivastava discusses his radical new theory of black holes and a ...

For others, it's the bright lights of the Milky Way. Find out which celebrities left L.A. behind ... Audra Duhamel/Instagram Josh Duhamel and his family (wife Audra Mari, their one-year-old son ...