Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the ...

One star is captured into a tight orbit around the black hole, while the other is flung outward at extreme velocities - often exceeding thousands of kilometers per second - becoming ... It is the ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

This appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside our Milky Way galaxy, according to a report that's appearing in The Astrophysical Journal. While scientists think that most galaxies ...

Find a remote area in a national park, miles from the nearest ... the Milky Way to spin. In short, our sun is about two-thirds of the way from the center of the galaxy, and astronomers know that it ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...