Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

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The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

The mass required to eject these stars suggests a hidden black hole in the dwarf galaxy. The Large Magellanic Cloud orbits the Milky Way at 160,000 light-years away. Scientists estimate it will ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

A black hole might conjure images of a dark, quiet void, but never-seen-before images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope reveals the centre of the Milky Way looks more like fireworks.

Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...