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 ...

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

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

Pulling the plastic bins down the rough pavement of my driveway, I stare up at a smattering of stars and planets. I can’t see that many; the band of the Milky Way that I used to see nightly when I ...

Nasa is tracking a potentially devastating “zombie star” as it races through our galaxy at more than 177,000kmh.

The Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park joins more than 80 other internationally recognized dark sky places in ...

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

The Church frontman Steve Kilbey had no idea he was sitting on an Australian classic when the band played Under the Milky Way ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

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

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...