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

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

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

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

A new study suggests that dark matter could be shaping cosmic chemistry, with a proposed self-annihilating dark matter ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...