Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

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Radio galaxies already feature mind-bending physics, with supermassive black holes accreting matter at the galactic core and sending out vast plasma jets that glow at radio frequencies. Those larger ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

We will never get an image of the Milky Way from above, but M81 or Bode's galaxy is a good stand-in – and now is a great time ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. The latest estimates suggest there are around one septillion stars, which is a 1 followed by 24 zeros. Our sun is a typical G-type ...

The Triangulum Galaxy, also informally known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy 2.7 million light-years from Earth ...