Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...

Jupiter is still a month from opposition, rising about 9 p.m. in the NE as November begins, and right after sunset by Thanksgiving. Saturn is the only planetary highlight in the evening now, in ...

The flare was first detected in 2018 by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) in ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening and observe the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy. Charles Messier made this ...

We measure the “warmness” of the dark matter, i.e. the comoving root-mean-square thermal velocity v hrms (1) , with nearly 3000 spiral galaxy rotation curves in the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explores the evolution of spiral galaxy UGC 10043 through images taken 23 years apart, in 2000 ...

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...

A cosmic explosion known as GRB 250702B is by far the longest gamma-ray burst astronomers have ever seen—if it’s even one at ...

Most people rarely experience the effects of dark matter in ordinary life. However, we live in an environment affected by ...