Astronomers have discovered a second interstellar cloud near the center of the Milky Way that is extraordinarily rich in ...

A star called S301 passes Sagittarius A* at 8% of light speed, near enough that the black hole's spin should bend its orbit.

The star passes very close to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole and could reveal the black hole’s spin by tracking how ...

Most of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy sit neatly on a flat plane. But the space around our galaxy is much more chaotic.

A telescope has spied the fastest known star in our galaxy, racing around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Last week I mentioned we'd revisit the Milky Way to explore a little more. Sometimes it's difficult when looking at a ...

Hubble observations reveal that the Milky Way absorbed a massive dwarf galaxy 12.3 billion years ago, reshaping its earliest known history.

Exhibition opens in former home of William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, and his comet-spotting sibling Caroline ...

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Together the three bright stars Deneb, Vega and Altair form the bright Summer Triangle asterism visible in the southern sky.

September brings the autumnal equinox, signaling the official start of fall in the Northern Hemisphere.