There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though ...

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At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

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The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history ... population of 20 stars currently orbiting in the vicinity of the Sun. Unlike the Sun, however, these stars have almost no metals.

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

Like Icarus, Comet C2024 S1 flew too close to the sun and vaporized this week. Here's how the "Halloween comet" met its fiery ...

The Sun is one of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy; the Solar System includes the Earth and all the other objects that orbit the Sun. Historically, galaxies have been categorized according to ...

The Church's Steve Kilbey takes a deep dive into the making of their Starfish single "Under the Milky Way" on The Story ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...