In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes is wreaking havoc, consuming stars and accelerating the cycle of star ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Immense magnetic fields in the center of the Milky Way apparently ensure that, despite ideal initial conditions, fewer stars are formed than would be expected. This is suggested by findings now ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... During a close orbit, the heavier white dwarf of the pair ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar ... It is one of 10 known recurring ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

of the Milky Way. The CMZ, which contains tens of millions of solar masses of gas at the heart of the galaxy, produces far fewer stars than expected. While previous studies linked this anomaly to ...

This is a 44 light-year-wide region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, where stars are being formed. JWST's image revealed more than ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

What can merging star clusters teach scientists about the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies, which are smaller galaxies than our Milky Way and orbi | Space ...

The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...