Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." ...

Scientists have discovered "space tornadoes" swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. International researchers made ...

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

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

Our own Milky Way has a 4 million solar mass black hole – Sagittarius ... The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), founded in ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.