Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) shared new images that revisited ...

Hubble’s 35-year journey showcases humanity’s boldest space achievements, capturing everything from new stars forming to ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

By examining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia space ... Until now, all the black holes found in the Milky Way galaxy were accompanied by a partner star. Black holes are hard to ...

A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly observed star clusters merging at the cores of dwarf galaxies—a process long ...

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study exoplanets and the opportunity to refresh one’s perspectives.

An astronomer breaks down 3 key components that allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries — and decide when ...