M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above ...

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

Ursa Major III, once considered a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy, may actually be a dense star cluster. New research suggests its gravity is maintained by a core of black holes and neutron stars, ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

Astronomers identified what they believed was a lone brown dwarf orbiting a bright single star. Then they looked more closely.

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

The study reveals that DFK 52, a red supergiant star, has shed a significant amount of mass, creating a vast bubble of gas ...

NASA has found another big cosmic structure orbiting a red dwarf - and this one allows the scientists to study due to the current temperature inside.

A team of international astronomers has unveiled a massive, previously unknown cloud of gas and dust streaming toward the ...

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists have reevaluated the nature of Ursa ...

This ultramassive black hole, weighing in at an astonishing 36 billion times the mass of our Sun, dwarfs the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way by a factor of 10,000.