The SPHEREx mission will image 1 billion galaxies, 100 million stars, and 10,000 asteroids – and help to answer some of the biggest scientific mysteries.

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it’s so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful tools is something called 21cm radiation. Hydrogen, the most abundant ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

A supermassive black hole, estimated to be 600,000 times larger than the Sun, is making its way toward the Milky Way, according to a research team from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for ...

Space scientists say the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having "a party." A team of astrophysicists has gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the “void ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

A Neptune-sized exoplanet has been detected moving at a record-breaking 1.2M mph, led by a hypervelocity star.

In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is gradually moving toward the Milky Way and scientists estimate that the two galaxies might ...