For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the Chandra team.

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's ...

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory is considered one of the agency’s greatest achievements, but it’s not necessarily as ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...