Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the ...

UConn researchers develop a clearer 3D model of the galactic center (Adobe photo) Earth – our tiny blue dot in the galaxy – ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

In the planetarium, data from the GAIA spacecraft shows the little Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy dropping stars like breadcrumbs ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 100 examples of massive black holes shredding and devouring stars, almost all of them where you'd expect to find ...

At the heart of the pinwheel lies a pair of massive, hot stars locked in a binary orbit, located roughly 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Sagittarius ... their orbits, and features in their ...

Yet for the first time in history, scientists believe they have spotted a black hole based on deflections of a source star, though no star orbits it ... from our home planet in the constellation of ...

When the planet is in opposition in Sagittarius, or between Taurus and Gemini, the rings appear broadest, and Saturn shines more brightly than a star of ... where asteroid orbits are made ...

Here is an artist’s rendition. The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is in the constellation Sagittarius. Freedman showed a video clip of the extreme orbits of stars surrounding this ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

These brown dwarfs, intermediate objects between giant planets and stars, form a rare binary system. The exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, was detected through the gravitational disturbances it induces ...