Where exactly is the edge of the Milky Way? That question is harder to answer than one might expect. Since we’re inside of ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...

"With the James Webb Space Telescope now revealing more supermassive black holes in the early universe, this mechanism may ...

Stellar winds blowing away from a nearby binary star probably form the gas clouds.

Watch this amazing animation. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, ...

Throughout the many adventures of Star Trek, it's extremely rare that the Enterprise (or any other ship) leaves the Milky Way ...

Scientists have mapped the extent of the Vela Supercluster for the first time, and determined that it is one of the largest ...

A string of small gas clouds near the Milky Way’s central black hole has puzzled astronomers for years. Now, new observations ...

Radio waves from black holes reveal unusual orbital patterns and hidden jet activity, offering new insights into cosmic behavior ...

The celestial objects were unknown until a little more than 60 years ago, but even the name is now part of our lexicon.

New observations and simulations by a team of researchers led by MPE reveal that a massive binary star near our galaxy's ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...