A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 billion stars individually. Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, ...

The JWST's MIRI detected a flare in Sagittarius A*, revealing for the first time in mid-infrared how an explosion occurs near ...

AI-boosted simulation models one hundred billion Milky Way stars over ten thousand years, achieving one hundred times the ...

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, ...

Alligator Alcatraz is causing light pollution in one of the first designated "dark skies" in the eastern United States.

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...