The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant ...

Supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, showing a glowing ring around a dark center. A black hole 6.5 billion times the ...

The first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, released to the public in May 2022. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration ...

Leaving the galaxy far enough to photograph it is a whole different undertaking for a species that has not yet left the Solar System. "To get [images of the Milky Way] a spacecraft would have to ...

The galaxy, located in the Peacock constellation of the universe, is over 522,000 light-years across, or more than five times the size of the Milky Way, according to NASA. The 25 images released ...

An image of the heart of the Milky Way showing an X-ray flare. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Astronomers have spotted flares and echos coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...