"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an ...

The new group, designated CGG-z4, hosts two optically dark star-forming galaxies. The finding was detailed in a research paper published Jan. 9 on the pre-print server arXiv. Galaxy groups are the ...

Pinwheel Galaxy. Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and host six ... bright blue clusters of young stars, and an older yellow central bulge. Spanning 50,000 light ...