In the dense, glittering heart of our galaxy, a cosmic drama is playing out that puts our own quiet solar system to shame.

I/ATLAS, the interstellar object discovered in 2025, reveals the estimated population, composition, and distribution of ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way ...

Scientists uncover the universe’s most massive object, glowing yellow, blue, and pink at 100 million °C, while a true inferno ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object - perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely ...

Hoag’s Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: Benoit Blanco NASA and the European Space Agency have shared this beautiful and striking image of a most ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is always up to something unusual. Now, astronomers have spotted strange new objects close by — and they aren't quite sure what ...

A vast, unexplained object has been spotted in our galaxy. The object is probably the most massive neutron star ever observed, or the least massive black hole found, researchers believe. Either way, ...

In a discovery that offers a rare glimpse back to when the universe was just 750 million years old, a team of astrophysicists said Sunday they have detected a tiny galaxy that is the farthest known ...

Hoag's Object is a rare ring galaxy, very far from Earth. It has a central core of older, red stars surrounded by a ring of younger, blue stars. Ring galaxies may form from galaxy collisions, but Hoag ...