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 ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

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

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

A bright flash of radio waves from 3 billion years after the big bang is illuminating parts of the universe that astronomers ...

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 ...

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