Milky Way

Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects with gravity so strong that not even light can escape, making viewing them extremely challenging.

Getting in the Super Bowl spirit? Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy, spins so fast that it makes spacetime around it shaped like a football.

The new mapping method may allow astronomers to study previously obscured parts of the galaxy and of the universe.

Over the years, astronomers have classified galaxies into three main shapes: elliptical, irregular and spiral.

Humanity has been looking for aliens for decades but has yet to find any evidence. A new study suggests we may just be in a sort of cosmic blind spot for alien radio signals.

Quasar galaxy 3C 297 is all alone in space, but from what we know, it should be within a galaxy cluster. How did this happen? It seemingly ate all of them.

This discovery could completely upend our understanding of space, with the paper's co-author describing the entire situation as "bananas."

Not all supernovas will have the same impact on the solar system.

Only a millionth of simulated galaxies were located in a cosmological wall like the Local Sheet and had a mass like the Milky Way's.