By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

Chinese researchers examining European data find freshly formed stars rotate much faster than their predecessors.

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

A team of astronomers say they've gleaned the mysterious structures of our galaxy's supermassive black hole by training an AI ...

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century ...

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under ...