Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That's our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...