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In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...
JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.
A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.
In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is continuing the celebrations with a new view of the Eagle Nebula. This vast stellar nursery ...
Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...
These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.
The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.
NASA and ESA officially retire the Gaia space telescope after 11 years of mapping the Milky Way, but its data will shape astronomy for decades.
Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...
One of the UK's biggest supermarkets has boosted its £4 Food to Go offer with the arrival of Milky Way Crispy Rolls. Morrisons is now stocking Milky Way Crispy Rolls online and in stores The Food ...
Credit: NASA The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of ...