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 ...
A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using ...
NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...
Russian astronomers have carried out spectroscopic and photometric observations of a cataclysmic variable designated Gaia ...
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 ...
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 ...
The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.
"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...