The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

Immigrants come to court-mandated appointments in search of citizenship. They find masked, armed agents instead.

Astronomers using Gaia’s precise star maps have uncovered entire hidden galaxies concealed within the Milky Way itself.

Why it's so special: Stars in the Milky Way galaxy are born in huge molecular clouds. The most massive is Sagittarius B2, which is just a few hundred light-years from our the galaxy's central black ...

The chief executive of the company that makes Tylenol got a text message earlier this month that contained nothing but a single link to a Substack post. In the post, a promoter of Covid-19 ...

When earth and sky meet the result is electric as this photo taken at Salmon Creek Beach shows. Bioluminescent plankton, which emit light through a chemical reaction, cast a blue glow underneath a ...

Stars, gas and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud glow in near-infrared light, captured by Webb’s NIRCam instrument. The darkest areas of the image are not empty space but are areas ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

Earth’s journey through the Milky Way’s dense spiral arms might have churned up the planet’s surface 1. As the Solar System spins around the Milky Way’s centre, it passes through ripples of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Understanding the Earth’s journey through the Milky Way is tricky, but a new study used neutral hydrogen and zircon crystals to dig up details of ...