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

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other telescopes, the Rubin Observatory is working to capture the night sky in real-time ...