The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

The Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids meteor showers, which will both peak July 30, also coincide with a third ...

The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in our night sky. As soon as it gets dark ...

A newly discovered object from deep space may be the oldest comet ever observed—possibly more than 7 billion years old, and ...

The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in the Pottsville night sky. As soon as it ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

There may be many more satellite galaxies in the Milky Way than have been observed, according to new Durham University ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

Expect warm, humid conditions with scattered to occasionally strong thunderstorms through Monday. Stay weather-aware Sunday ...