"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

Scientists have confirmed the first known solitary black hole. It’s a rogue, companionless object drifting through our galaxy ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

Astronomers found a fast-moving 'zombie star' in the Milky Way. This magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, has a strong magnetic ...

A team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole drifting through the Milky Way, unaccompanied by ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...