Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, a finding researchers said could reveal details about how ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

On an astrotourism trip like Gorov's, celestial objects take center stage. More travelers are seeking out the feeling of awe ...

Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, ...

The Phoenix Cluster's central galaxy is about 5.8 billion light-years away and should be mostly done with star formation.

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...

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 ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of a rocket booster on its drone ship off the coast of an island in The Bahamas on ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have studied one of the largest young star clusters in our galaxy, ...