A research team says this cone-shaped void amid cold gas may reveal the missing wind from the Milky Way's supermassive black ...

The Milky Way’s central black hole has long posed an awkward problem. By every standard picture of how black holes behave, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the ...

Understanding the nature of our cosmos requires an accurate map of how galaxies are spread throughout it. For decades, ...

Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made. The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways, according to its creators. In all, it ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European Southern ...

This snapshot is just a small part of one of the most comprehensive and spectacular views yet of the universe — a web-like structure formed by millions of galaxies, stretching back to near the dawn of ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have released the largest infrared map of the Milky Way ever. The enormous dataset contains millions of new objects, and the researchers expect to ...

A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint accuracy and sweeping beauty. A new map of dark matter in the local universe reveals several ...

The Magellanic Clouds are a pair of dwarf galaxies passing the Milky Way probably for the first time, but as they move they ...