The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* is never at rest. Using NASA’s James Webb ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

A newly discovered star system in the heart of the Milky Way is moving at unprecedented speeds. Scientists believe this ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a phenomenon for the very first time. The bright red streaks at top left of this image are aligned protostar outflows – jets of gas from newborn stars ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...