Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Students discovered an ultra-ancient star with almost no heavy elements, making it one of the most pristine ever found.

This collection brings together eight baby boy names inspired by the Milky Way, blending cosmic beauty with Indian cultural ...

A dreamy night-time shot of the expansive Milky Way over the Cuckmere Meanders has won the People’s Choice award.

A landlord fascinated by the space and the sky set up an observatory – in the back garden of his pub. Alan Boddington, 67, ...

The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to bring fiery streaks to the night sky. The shower peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday ...

No theory could explain the slight excess of far-ultraviolet light in the Milky Way until now.

Our cosmic neighbourhood is far from a quiet place. While humans feel stationary on Earth, in reality they are passengers on a high-speed journey through the vacuum of space. Just imagine you ...

Studying the star, called SDSS J0715-7334, could give astronomers insights into how the universe's first stars were formed ...

The public voted for their favourite image from a shortlist of 25 entries, with voting taking place since the national park's Dark Skies Festival in February.

Watch this amazing animation. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, ...

Lead author Valentina Crespi explained that this dense dark matter core could bend light so strongly that it creates a dark ...