In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

A black hole might conjure images of a dark, quiet void, but never-seen-before images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope reveals the centre of the Milky Way looks more like fireworks.

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Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

A recent NASA report suggests that countless tiny particles could be coming together to create an invisible, foam-like dark matter right in the middle of our galaxy. Turns out, the Milky Way has more ...

The Milky Way, the Big Dipper ... file looks as if it is a "galaxy train," Yoshimi said. Mount Tenjosan was seen in the north from the square, looming in the dark near the center of the island.

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The mass required to eject these stars suggests a hidden black hole in the dwarf galaxy. The Large Magellanic Cloud orbits the Milky Way at 160,000 light-years away. Scientists estimate it will ...

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 ...