The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

The amount of data gathered by Rubin Observatory in just the first year of the LSST will be greater than that collected by all other observatories combined,” stated Mike England in a recent briefing.

By analyzing the data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, Chinese astronomers have investigated a globular cluster known as ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, experts were hard at work preparing ''Encounters in the Milky Way," a deep dive into our home galaxy shaped by the movements of stars and other ...

The Saturn return in a cosmic rite of passage that comes around every 29.5 years, delivering endurance tests to make you stronger, wiser, and more resilient. If you were born between the following ...

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from Earth and 23.5 million kilometres in diameter.

An international team of researchers led by PD Dr Florian Peißker has found the first binary star in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* (Sagittarius A star) at the ...

PSR J1719-1438 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star, and was discovered in 2011. ... Sagittarius A, it was thrown astray out of our galaxy into interstellar space. ...