Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

It is no secret that at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole better known as Sagittarius A ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

New simulations reveal the glow at Milky Way’s heart may come from dark matter, challenging long-held cosmic theories.

Combining a quantum-inspired algorithm and quantum information processing technologies could enable researchers to measure ...

On October 18, 2025, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at ...

The annotated artist's concept illustrates the new view of the Milky Way. The galaxy's two major arms (Scutum-Centaurus and ...

Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a ...

The largest multi-object spectroscopic survey facility in the southern hemisphere, which UCL engineers helped design and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers find tiny red dots that have sparked many questions. Certain truths are ...

Some astronomers believe the source of the glow to be pulsars — the spinning leftovers of exploded stars — while others point ...