A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

FORTY-THREE PATENTS have been issued within the past three weeks to inventors whose papers were prepared at the Scientific American Patent Office. We are confident that such success is without a ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The findings were presented today at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society ... mass of our Sun and sits at the core of the Milky Way. Black holes are ultra-dense objects with ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The 2025 American Birding Association Bird of the Year has been revealed as one that is Minnesota's own.

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

Like the Milky Way, it’s a spiral galaxy, but the distance between the two local giants may not be as great as previously thought. Presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting in ...