The Sun isn't the only star in this galactic neighbourhood. Other stars also call this neighbourhood home. But what's the…
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is over 200,000 light-years away, yet it's still one of our galaxy's closest neighbours in…
The GRAVITY collaboration just released the clearest images ever of the stars that orbit the supermassive black hole in the…
The New Horizons spacecraft has been speeding away from Earth since it launched in 2006. Scientists using the Alice UV…
Astronomers have found a smaller, stellar-mass black hole lurking in a nearby satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. The…
Astronomers have known for years that galaxies are cannibalistic. Massive galaxies like our own Milky Way have gained mass by…
The center of the Milky Way is a mysterious place. Astronomers think there's a supermassive black hole there, though it…
What if our eyes could see radio waves? If we could, we might be able to look up into the…
Gas from the intergalactic medium constantly rains down on galaxies, fueling continued star formation. New research has shown that this…
If it were't for an enormous halo of dark matter enveloping our galaxy, the spin-rate of our central bar should…