Near the crowded heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked out a dense, turbulent pocket of gas that ...

Astronomers analyzing the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS say new trajectory and composition data point to an origin ...

Along with summer comes the peak time for viewing the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way. But if you want to see the dense area of stars at the center of the Milky Way, you'll need a few conditions in ...

Columbia astrophysicists have discovered 12 black hole-low mass binaries orbiting Sgr A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Their existence suggests there are likely about 10,000 black holes ...

Fireworks aren't the only thing illuminating the sky this month. July also presents the opportunity to catch a cosmic light show, when the Milky Way galaxy appears in the night sky. According to NASA, ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

Galactocentric XY-plane map of the 33 335 stars used for calculating circular velocities, plotted in 0.5 kpc bins. The vectors represent the mean velocity of stars within each bin, color coded by the ...

(VLBA), they found that a radio-wave-emitting object at the Galaxy’s center would nearly fit between the Earth and the Sun. This is half the size measured in any previous observation.

Ursa Major III, previously classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy due to its high mass, is proposed to be a compact star cluster located 32,600 light-years from the Milky Way. The research team ...

Astronomers announced yesterday that they had captured the most compelling evidence yet that a massive black hole is lurking in the cloud-shrouded heart of our Milky Way galaxy. By a stroke of good ...