Jupiter and Mars are high overhead, and they’re both bright enough to stand out. Jupiter looks like the second brightest star ...

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

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Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists discovered that the Milky Way 's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is constantly streaming out flares without respite.

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

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

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

Astrotourism is one of this year’s biggest travel trends, as more of us seek out unpolluted skies for a better view of the ...