A recent discovery of a magnetic halo surrounding the Milky Way galaxy could significantly alter our understanding of ...

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

Two jets, shooting in opposite directions, compose the biggest lightning bolt ever seen in the sky — about 140 times as long as our own Milky Way galaxy is wide, and more than 10 times the distance ...

A series of controversies has rocked the field of cosmology. The standard model of the universe appears to be at odds with ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

New research, utilizing data from the Gaia space telescope, suggests that the Milky Way's last significant collision occurred ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

Black holes are one of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena, despite how much we continue to learn about them. While considered a mathematical possibility for many years, the first black hole wasn’t ...

LEGO has come a long way since its launch by Danish businessman Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932. Originally a maker of wooden ...

A new study led by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and with contributions from Radboud University's Marijke ...

Theoretical physicist Tracy Slatyer proposes new scenarios for dark matter and helped discover the Fermi bubbles.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and ...