Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

New observations using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a "unique" ongoing, rapid-fire light show at the center of our galaxy.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

This interior view of the Milky Way galaxy is the only one that Earthbound ... has some experience in the arena of looking at space photos. "Dark bands of cosmic dust, patches of varying ...

You could fit our entire Milky Way galaxy between them and still have room to spare. At 250,000 light-years across, the Bullseye itself is more than twice the size of the Milky Way. There was luck ...

Using the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National ...

The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal ... Space Telescope (JWST), scientists discovered that the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr ...