Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, revealing a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, a team of ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new ...

"Ophion is filled with stars that are set to rush out across the galaxy in a totally haphazard, uncoordinated way, which is ...

What can magnetized stars, commonly called magnetars, teach astronomers about the distribution of heavy elements throughout ...

Cosmic noon is a mysterious period of the universe's evolution, around 2 billion to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, when ...

This illustration shows the fundamental architecture of our island city of stars, the Milky Way galaxy: a spiral disk, central bulge, and diffuse halo of stars and globular star clusters. The region ...