Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Silverman, Leah. "Astronomers Just Created The Most Detailed 3D-Map Of Our Galaxy Yet." AllThatsInteresting.com, November 14, ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

Michael Steven Harris earned People's Choice at the British Photography Awards for this stacked, long-exposure image ...

Tenerife may be known for its beaches, but it’s the island’s stargazing that leaves the biggest impression, boasting some of ...

The old saying, “The more things change, the more they stay the same" certainly applies to the known universe. Here we see ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant galaxy forming stars 180x faster than the Milky Way, revealing how early galaxies grew ...

For better images, the European Southern Observatory can combine four optical telescopes. Now, thanks to laser technology, a ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed radio-colour map of the Milky Way, revealing tens of thousands of sources and ...

Four powerful lasers were launched into the night sky above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, each creating an artificial ...