The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Using the Baryons Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) spectrograph, astronomers have discovered five new carbon-enhanced ...

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That's our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies ...

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory catalog provides over 400,000 sources and detailed X-ray mapping of the Milky Way center, ...

New evidence reveals the Milky Way’s black hole once erupted, genes hide mutation hot spots, and AI accelerates sodium ...