Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

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 ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

An illustration shows a "cosmic tornado" flowing around Sgr A,* the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Astronomers have discovered "space ...