KAIYO, Tokushima Prefecture--A Milky Way-themed train and another decked out with soothing wind chimes to beat the heat are making their last runs on the Asato Line here until late August.

This discovery owes itself to a trio of scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ ... black hole at ...

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

The Milky Way's growth, for example ... galaxies," says astrophysicist Yoshihisa Asada of Kyoto University in Japan. "We might be witnessing this process in action." The Location of Firefly ...