Discover how the Milky Way speeds through space at 600 km/s, pulled by a mysterious region called the Great Attractor. Hidden ...

New observations show that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way does not consume nearby dust objects as ...

New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The findings may require experts to revise estimates of the total size of our ...

Erythrulose—a sugar found in raspberries—is also prevalent in a giant molecular cloud close to our galaxy’s core, scientists ...

A best-yet measurement of one of general relativity’s most mind-boggling effects is “another feather in Einstein’s cap” ...

Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as ...

The area surrounding our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole contains three strangely different populations of stars – ...

Researchers are using NASA satellites to crack the mystery of “milky seas.” ...

Our universe is known to be remarkably homogeneous and isotropic. This essentially means that matter is distributed evenly ...

For two nights, the moon will host a cosmic party with three planets – Mars, Saturn and Uranus – that will be visible in the ...

Stars like our sun are formed from the collapse of stellar objects called prestellar cores, cold and dense concentrations of ...