A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

Arp 282: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

While the events observed around Sgr A* are dramatic, this black hole is not as active as some at the center of other ...

Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.

Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

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

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

The Andromeda nebula, M31 ... It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away ...