I/ATLAS, the interstellar object discovered in 2025, reveals the estimated population, composition, and distribution of ...
Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...
The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...
The distance to one of the Milky Way's next-door neighbors, a satellite galaxy that orbits its outskirts, has been determined more accurately than ever before, astronomers announced today (March 6).