Scientists have observed X-rays emanating from a white dwarf orbiting a supermassive black hole in a galaxy near the Milky Way. The study notes the stability of the dwarf's orbit, despite its ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious pulses of energy that can last from a fraction of a millisecond to about three ...

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

Death Valley National Park offers some of the best stargazing in America, with DarkSky International having designated it as a Gold Tier Dark Sky Park.

Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by a self-interacting dark matter subhalo. New research points to a dark matter subhalo as the architect behind the unique ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

The Milky Way’s peculiar velocity is relatively low ... to the ingenuity and persistence of the scientific community. Note: Materials provided above by The Brighter Side of News.

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

"What I find fascinating in this case is to note that even the Milky Way, a quiescent galaxy like many others, can expel ...

At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters ... says Portegies Zwart, who notes that planetary systems that lose one or more planets tend to have ...

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

These shots of the Milky Way were taken by 25-year-old photographer Stephen Bank over the past month They include some of the county's most iconic locations such as the renowned beauty spot Durdle ...