The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Ever stare into the night sky and wonder if we’re the main characters or just cosmic background noise? NASA’s latest 2024 findings suggest the answer might surprise you. This isn’t just pretty ...

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.

Stretching across 8 light-years, the rare stellar eruption is about twice the distance between our sun and the next nearest stars. The stellar jet is in the nebula Sharpless 2-284, which contains a ...

It was only earlier this month that American space agency NASA announced it had completed construction work on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and now we're already getting word of another ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

Benita Albert brings us part two of the two-part series on the career of Bob Benjamin. His career interest in astronomy began soon after graduating from Oak Ridge High School. You will find it ...