Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...
NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the ...
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During ...
This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...
Related: How fast does light travel? How do the sun and galaxy move? The sun has an orbit of its own in the Milky Way. The sun is about 25,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy ...
Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.
Unlike the typical blue-and-green depiction of Earth, this photo shows the planet in a mossy green hue, framed by a thin ...