Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

Breathtaking photos of this month's total lunar eclipse capture a blood red moon and star-studded Milky Way over NOIRLab's ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...