"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

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Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unveiled a striking new ...

A new study suggests that clues about dark matter may be hidden in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone, a large area of hydrogen molecules surrounding the centre of our galaxy. Dark matter ...

Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian have found compelling evidence of the nearest supermassive black hole beyond the Milky Way. This massive black hole resides in ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as "the discovery machine of the decade." ...

Related: Facts about Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole The researchers used ALMA to track molecules, using them as "tracers" for various processes happening in the CMZ's ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

After more than ten years in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially said goodbye to its Gaia spacecraft. On 27 ...