The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

A supermassive black hole, estimated to be 600,000 times larger than the Sun, is making its way toward the Milky Way, according to a research team from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for ...

Russian astronomers have carried out spectroscopic and photometric observations of a cataclysmic variable designated Gaia ...

Artist’s concept visualizing stars near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Each has a trail ... of view and then followed up with Keck and Gaia for their sharper resolution, but thanks to ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...