The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

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

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

Hubble's study reveals Andromeda experienced major galactic collisions, unlike Milky Way. Its satellite galaxies show unusual ...

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

There are millions of galaxies in the universe, and while astronomers have cataloged many, some remain relatively unknown to ...

Here is a list of galaxies that are known in this universe other than your Milky Way galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the ...

Unlike the typical blue-and-green depiction of Earth, this photo shows the planet in a mossy green hue, framed by a thin ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...