NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

In this astrophotography guide, Josh Dury explains how he captures stellar images of the Milky Way, Full Moon and more The ...

A newly discovered star system in the heart of the Milky Way is moving at unprecedented speeds. Scientists believe this ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have studied one of the largest young star clusters in our galaxy, ...

The Phoenix Cluster's central galaxy is about 5.8 billion light-years away and should be mostly done with star formation. Many galaxy clusters have a region of hot gas in the intracluster medium (ICM) ...

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The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.