We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

For those in midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the arc of our galaxy becomes easier to see in May. Here's when and where to look. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting milestone in astronomy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

"Core season" for the Milky Way has arrived, with our galaxy visible all night as a band of light arching across the sky. Here's where, when, and how to get the best views in June. When you purchase ...

Direction of Object 1 and 2 (solid yellow line). The green squares represent their possible locations based on the kinematic distance estimates (see Section 4.3 and 4.4). The background is an artist's ...