A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern ...

A new discovery has surfaced, wherein the first-ever solitary black hole has been revealed in the Sagittarius constellation.

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Astronomers have tracked a mysterious magnetar, SGR 0501+4516, across the Milky Way, revealing it may not have formed in a ...

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While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed a roaming magnetar of a different origin, indicating the possibility of understanding ...

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A black hole 600,000 times the mass of the Sun was discovered close to the Milky Way, and it is shooting stars at us. Home to a monster black hole ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." ...

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they ...