Near the center of the Milky Way are enormous filaments of radio energy that sometimes look like bones, and one in particular ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes.

In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a rare "Einstein ring," revealing two distant galaxies in an optical illusion ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope offers a "visual feast of galaxies," including objects billions of ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...

A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...

The image contains a striking number of cosmic objects, ranging from stars within our own Milky Way galaxy, marked by diffraction ... from delicate spiral arms to warped disks and irregular ...

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./F. Yusef-Zadeh et al; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKat; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk ...

New 3D maps of the Milky Way confirm our galaxy is warped It turns out our Milky Way galaxy isn't the flat spiral disk we thought it was before -- dark matter or collisions with other galaxies ...