Data from ESA's Gaia mission has been used to create an 3D animated view of the Milky Way galaxy's stellar nurseries. CREDIT ...

You can be moving at extraordinary speed and still feel completely stationary. The reason comes down to the difference between velocity and the changes in motion your body can actually detect.

A sweeping barred spiral galaxy marks the spot in this image, but the real treasure is the gravitational lens in the ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

Many things scattered throughout the Milky Way flicker, glow, and pulse in idiosyncratic ways. From the staccato static of a ...

Models say a few black holes may lurk within 50 light-years of the Sun. A new study used Gaia data and radio and infrared ...

The biggest galaxy in the Deer Lick Group, galaxy NGC 7331 has lots to offer through a telescope, so track it down tonight.

The gas orbiting Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is rich in metals ...

The Milky Way's disc thinned in two stages at different rates. The precise age of the stars reveals the timing of this ...

An international team, led by a pre-doctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered ...

Osaka's Kita area, where JR Osaka Station, various Umeda stations, and Kitashinchi Station converge, is a city packed with ...