Richard, a keen amateur astrophotographer, said: "There are many natural wonders to be seen in the darkness of night. The ...

This week in Starwatch I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer, Sagittarius ...

The simplest explanation — that Punctum is an extreme example of something familiar — hasn’t been ruled out. A magnetar in an unusual environment, a supernova remnant tangled with dense material, or ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

An elongated object near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known only as ‘X7,’ has piqued the ...

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

The newly confirmed supermassive black hole at the heart of CAPERS-LRD-z9 is known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...