A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints from enormous ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...

Gold and platinum are found in space, created when two stars collide. Astrophysicists can even trace this process further back, to the merger of galaxies.

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of ...

The Milky Way resides in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that includes more than 50 other galaxies. Those galaxies can be as "small" as a dwarf galaxy, with up to only a few billion stars ...

Astronomers have created the largest and most detailed 3D map yet of a glowing signal from the early universe, revealing hidden galaxies and gas from 9-11 billion years ago. By analyzing faint ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is slowly moving toward us at incredible speed. Astronomers ...

If you’ve spent your entire life looking at the night sky from a city or suburb, you’ve basically been watching the universe ...

Arizona stargazers can see the Milky Way without special equipment. Learn when and where to spot our galaxy's bright center.

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky ...

"Astronomy is one of the only sciences that can be done by normal laypeople," Calumet Astronomical Society President David Ryan said.