Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

It's as if the black hole basically hurled it out of the galaxy. Han and his colleagues recently studied 21 of these ...

Astronomers found a hidden supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 600,000 times the Sun's mass. It flings ...