Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

The Event Horizon Telescope's famous image of Sagittarius A* may depict an artifact, raising questions about the black hole's ...

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

The Methuselah star is the oldest star in the universe, estimated to be 16 billion years old. Read to follow the discussion ...

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

From the colourful Lagoon Nebula, to the mesmerizing Butterfly nebula, check out these 7 amazing images of nebulae captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...