"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

The Milky Way Galaxy Nestled in the heart of Namibia, the NamibRand Nature Reserve offers an unparalleled view of the Milky ...

An international of team astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dus ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

Astronomers have found what appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest satellite galaxy ...

It's all happening at the Majura sunflower maze. I like telling local stories and celebrating Canberra. Email: megan.doherty@canberratimes.com.au I like telling local stories and celebrating ...

Still overwhelmed? Add this into the mix. The new black hole discovered by the two teams in Pasadena is larger than our Milky Way galaxy. It can be hard to put a finger on just how massive the ...

Cosmic sparkle: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the globular cluster NGC 2298, a sparkling collection of thousands of stars held together by their mutual gravitational attraction.

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive black ...