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

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New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

The sight of the Milky Way stretching across the night sky is iconic, but some places offer a better view of it than others. These locations are among the best.

The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in our night sky. As soon as it gets dark ...

A newly discovered object from deep space may be the oldest comet ever observed—possibly more than 7 billion years old, and ...