Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?

For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...

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 ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

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

In the close Universe, the distance typically is a predictor of speed: more distant galaxies recede more rapidly. Another ...

The center of the Milky Way twinkles in microwave radiation, seen in new data obtained by astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This study could help ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...