Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological masterpiece” of Coyote Buttes, Utah to the sandstone terrain of desolate Ennedi, ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...

The winners of the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest ... curates the annual list based on image quality, the story behind the shot and the overall inspiration it provides.

But, the new search revealed hundreds of neutrinos that appear to come from the plane of the Milky Way. Turned into an image, it shows the areas of our galaxy that are producing high-energy neutrinos.

The Milky Way ... of high-energy charged particles. As plasma spirals around the black hole, its accelerating particles emit radio waves. The blurry orange ring seen in the images are an elaborate ...

An image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, which scientists think ... perhaps even enabling high-resolution movies showing changes in the photon ring ...

Physicists have been confident since the1980s that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, similar to those thought to be at the center of most spiral and ...

researchers have found the first evidence of high-energy neutrinos that originated from inside the Milky Way and mapped the particles onto an image of the galaxy’s plane. It’s the first time ...

Then, in spring 2022, astronomers unveiled another black hole photo — this time of the one at the center of our own Milky Way ... a false-color image, where orange represents high-intensity ...