Aurora photographer Harlan Thomas struck gold, not only capturing Perseid meteors streaking across the sky but also the ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

Astronomers from around the world have made a groundbreaking discovery within the Milky Way Galaxy that promises to offer ...

The center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of the most fascinating and luminous regions in the universe, even though it houses a supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*. This video ...

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

Big Cypress National Preserve is home to Alligator Alcatraz, which is causing light pollution in one of the first dark skies locations in the east.

A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way —has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...

Find the best places to stargaze in the Carolinas from mountains to coastal preserves, this guide is ideal for all levels of astronomers.

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University ...