See dazzling planets, the Milky Way and a trio of celestial animals brightening the spring sky around May's new moon.

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

New research suggests dark matter could leave a tiny but discernible imprint in the cacophony of ripples in spacetime called ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could expose a vast hidden population of neutron stars lurking unseen across the Milky Way. By ...

Astronomers have directly observed how turbulent gas and charged particles floating between stars can bend and distort light ...

A brightly gleaming galaxy streaked with dramatic dust lanes and glittering pockets of star formation is more than just a ...

Astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have made the first direct detection of ...

New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

Mars An anomaly in Mars' mantle could trigger volcanoes to erupt — and may be causing the whole planet to spin faster Space Exploration Chinese lander reveals giant 'cavity' of radiation between Earth ...

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for ...

Messier 77 normally looks relatively serene in images, but who knew the supermassive black hole tugging at the galaxy's heartstrings could be so violent? New Webb images have captured the bright ...