There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

Lior Shamir, a computer scientist in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, published a study of ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). Just as the Milky Way is much more massive than the Large Magellanic Cloud, Sgr A* is much more massive ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together through the ...