At the center of the Milky Way, there might lie a pulsar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star that formed from the dead ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million individual X-ray light detections collected through 2021. The latest examples from ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

For more than a century, astronomers have watched in astonishment as the Andromeda galaxy ignored the grand flow of cosmic ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

A new map of the universe is offering fresh insight into one of its greatest mysteries.

Scientists have created the sharpest map yet of dark matter, offering new insight into the invisible force that holds galaxies together.