Abendano, the team has built a sample of molecular clouds in this galaxy by analyzing the data from the Combined Array for ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

Astronomers describe the discovery of the largest-known stream of super-heated gas in the universe ejecting from a nearby ...

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

Most astronomers agree that young galaxy clusters should be relatively cool compared to older ones. But researchers recently ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...