A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the scientists honed in on stars, all between one and eight times the mass of the sun, ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen, and blue represented oxygen residing in ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year process of merging into a single celestial entity.

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colour). The dark, low-mass object is located at ...

From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...