A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.

Black holes, cosmic entities with immense gravity, trap everything, even light. These form from collapsed massive stars, ...

Astronomers discovered the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, located 200,000 light-years away, has stars moving in two opposing ...

For decades, scientists have known black holes often come in pairs. These binary systems feature a black hole locked in a ...

Gaia, which stands for Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, has nothing to do with the Greek goddess of the ...

We present a search for "hypercompact" star clusters in the Milky Way using a combination of Gaia and the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS). Such putative clusters, with sizes of similar to 1 ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it’s shooting out ...