Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6569.

By tracking these stars back to where they came from, scientists can map the gravitational field of the Milky Way. This helps ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and simulations is forcing astronomers to admit that many of those origin ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Microsoft did the unthinkable back in October when it revealed that the previous stalwart of Xbox exclusivity would be coming to PlayStation with Halo Campaign Evolved slated for 2026. With it set to ...