A study based on the trajectory of nine fast-moving stars observed at the fringes of the Milky Way provides strong evidence for the existence of a supermassive black hole inside the Large Magellanic ...

The Houston-based space startup is one of many companies primed by NASA to return the United States to the moon, with greater private sector involvement seen as a lower cost but higher risk means of ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

The Vernal Equinox occurs on Saturday, March 22 to begin spring in the northern hemisphere. Days and nights will be equally ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

From flaring black holes to strange early galaxies, the Webb telescope is showing us the wonders of the universe like never before.

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...