When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...
Dark matter continues to confound us, so far defying every attempt to decipher it. According to a new study, clues may lurk ...
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...
Earth may have cooled during a close encounter with dense star clouds. Interstellar dust from the Orion region might have shaped our ancient climate.
Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...
In the ongoing quest to understand dark matter, researchers are now wondering if a strange phenomenon occurring at the heart ...
A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...
Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding designated the Matthews family homestead, Milky Way Farm, as a prestigious ...
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 ...
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...
The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...