Image via Shutterstock Both locals and tourists alike are angry about one major change to a popular national monument. Devils Tower National Monument will no longer be open 24 hours a day. Officials ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An international ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Astronomers have identified a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest known outside the Milky Way. This discovery was made by tracking ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole ...

Gaia’s goal was to create a 3D map of our entire galaxy, and so far it has revealed the structure of the Milky Way in the greatest detail ever obtained. It has uncovered evidence that our galaxy ...

This development gives the Devils hope that they can find their way back to their game before the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs begin.

New Jersey Devils star Jack Hughes suffered a brutal shoulder injury in Sunday night’s game against the Vegas Golden Knights. The Devils were looking to get at least one goal back from the ...