There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...

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

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.