In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

The object is said to be billions of years older than our planet - a relic from the Milky Way's distant past ...

This most fundamental question was famously posited by none other than Nobel laureate physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

There may be many more satellite galaxies in the Milky Way than have been observed, according to new Durham University ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

Well, it's July 12, which means (a) the Steam Summer Sale is over and (b) it's really hot outside in the northeastern U.S.

Stargazers are in for a rare treat at month’s end, when two separate meteor showers each peak activity on the same night, ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

A mysterious object, first observed hurtling across the solar system on July 1, has now been identified as "very likely to be ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...