Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing ...

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes is wreaking havoc, consuming stars and accelerating the cycle of star ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory catalog provides over 400,000 sources and detailed X-ray mapping of the Milky Way center, ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s bright core returning to view in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...