Milky Way

The image reveals in incredible detail a fiery region surrounding the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of the Milky Way.

The image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The image confirms baby planets slice through their host star's dusty disks, leaving holes and rings in their wake.

Scientists wanted to address the question of how much organic material—substances that contain carbon and are essential for life—exists in interstellar space.

Diamonds are an astronomer's best friend.

“It was surprising, but you like to be surprised in science.”

The event horizon is the point of no return beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the immense gravitational pull of the black hole.

Mark Heyer took 20 years of radio telescope data to create the composition.

They were created using data from nearly 1.7 billion stars.

The "unprecedented map" captures the position and brightness of nearly 1.7 billion stars.

Widening waistbands are truly universal.

The Galactic Archaeology survey was launched in a bid to provide new insights into the formation and evolution of the Milky Way.

The discs contain gas, dust and even young planets that are still in the process of forming as the building blocks of planetary systems.

The black holes surround the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Scientists think the galaxy is expanding at about 550 yards per second.

Infrared images can help scientists peek behind the veil of enormous dusty clouds.

Physicists will now try to figure out when the clash happened.

But its weight class just got shrunk.

Rosette Nebulae are red, O-type stars are blue...

A new theoretical model of dark matter suggests it contains two distinct varieties of charged particles, which would allow it to form compact objects.

The planets sit in a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away.

The winding black clouds suck the light from newborn stars.

The discovery marks the first inactive black hole ever found at the heart of a giant globular star cluster.

It's a lot more hectic in the heart of our galaxy than scientists thought.

Its coat could be the key to the strange asteroid's origins.

The weird clouds could come from another galaxy.

It's about the size of 13 Jupiters smooshed together, which means that for a planet, it's really, really big.

Astronomers have mapped a point 66,000 light-years away, straight across our galaxy's core.

Scientist traces the trajectories of 300,000 stars and found the ones most likely to brush past us in the future.

Supercomputer simulations reveal we are all made up of a bit of extragalactic matter.