The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers estimate that there could be 100 million black holes ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Behold! The 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards shortlist has been released, showcasing a spectacular array of ...

Professor Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist from Harvard University, told MailOnline why he thinks a new ...

A newly discovered object from deep space may be the oldest comet ever observed—possibly more than 7 billion years old, and ...

A recently discovered interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, could potentially be the oldest comet ever observed, predating our solar ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

This most fundamental question was famously posited by none other than Nobel laureate physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Actor Pedro Pascal narrates the time-traveling journey through space at the American Museum of Natural History.

There may be many more satellite galaxies in the Milky Way than have been observed, according to new Durham University ...