Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

In the vast expanse of the universe, there are cosmic giants so enormous that they stretch our understanding of scale and ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

This year, the Buck Moon follows Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun, by just a few days, ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

The outer space is a fascinating place that will neve cease to amaze us, with incredible views that gives us a perspective of ...

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...