A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

If you thought the Milky Way was grandiose in size, Quipu takes center stage right away. Quipu is the nickname for an immense ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the massive Stephenson 2 cluster about 19,000 light-years away, has been caught ...

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in ...

Prof Manda Banerji and Dr Phil Wiseman from the University of Southampton say that the Vera Rubin telescope is a gamechanger for space exploration.

At about 1,700 years old, MSH 15-52, sometimes called the "cosmic hand" or " hand of God " for its unusual shape, is one of ...

On March 16, 2025, CHIME detected an ultrabright flash of radio emissions, which automatically triggered the CHIME Outriggers ...

Astronomers have detected the closest and brightest fast radio burst ever recorded, a dazzling signal from a galaxy just 130 ...

Discover a complete Einstein ring, the first strong gravitational lens, which allows us to refine nearby stellar mass and ...