A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

Currently, the Moon is drifting away from Earth at a rate of about 1.6 inches per year making it slowly appear smaller in 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 ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

The Beehive Cluster, a group of about 1,000 stars, will be visible to skywatchers throughout January. Here's how to see it in ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also ...