As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are.

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.

Our location limits the volume of potentially ... including previously unobservable areas on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. The study has been posted to the arXiv preprint server as a ...

Spoiler warning: Below there will be information about today's New York Times Strands puzzle.

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

From the coiling patterns of ferns to the Fibonacci sequence of pine cones, the mathematical order of nature is a soothing ...

A different kind of nightlife awaits when you road-trip out for some celestial splendor. See the best places for stargazing in dark-sky locations just miles from major cities including New York, ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully. Our galaxy's two closest neighbors ... "This is the location where the halos are compressed, like two balloons pushing ...

The beauty spot has been named as one of the top destinations in the UK to immerse yourself in 'nature's paradise' and has ...