For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.

Dark matter is a fundamental hypothesis when it comes to our understanding of the universe, but it remains a hypothesis. We ...

This year's meteor shower will also coincide with two comets, promising a dazzling celestial display. Here's how to watch.

That leaves it vulnerable to the gravitational tugs of an untold number of Milky Way stars. Just as NASA uses the gravitational ... may have influenced its orbit. Using data from the European Space ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The ...