A star cluster just outside the Milky Way known as Omega Centauri appears to have a black hole at its center according to new ...

The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

The universe is littered with trillions of galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda. If you spent your entire life, a hundred lives, looking at every galaxy you could see in a telescope, you would ...

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Thursday, Oct. 31, with sky charts, ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

The Milky Way still holds many secrets about the universe ... What is also peculiar with the system '4U 1820-30' is that the companion star is a white dwarf about the same size as the Earth. It is ...

New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — with a little help from the Hubble Space Telescope — may have found a family of ...

Both have increased star formation rates. Combined, they are estimated to form the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun annually. Our Milky Way galaxy forms the equivalent of ...

Halloween has come a long way over hundreds and hundreds of years. It all started in Celtic Britain, present-day Ireland, and ...