The restaurant’s location in southern Indiana also means it serves as a beacon for travelers moving between Louisville and ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Astronomers have identified a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest known outside the Milky Way. This discovery was made by tracking ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our galaxy. As part of Expedition 72, Pettit and his team conduct crucial ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

A breathtaking timelapse captured the Milky Way in all its glory, shining over Marathon, Florida, on March 3. The footage, filmed by Daniel Eidsmoe, shows the stunning celestial display ...

In the center of the Milky Way, a turbulent region characterized by the presence of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, interstellar gas and dust swirl under the influence of intense shock ...

Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole ...