The Vera Rubin Observatory has just delivered its first cosmic revelation—and it’s a spectacular one. During its Virgo First ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.