The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...