Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

A team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole drifting through the Milky Way, unaccompanied by ...

In its quest to chart the evolution of the universe, ESA’s space telescope has already amassed a massive catalog of galaxies and gravitational lenses.

Astronomers have spotted a zombie star, SGR 0501+4516, speeding through the Milky Way. This magnetar has an incredibly strong ...

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

Astronomers have tracked a rare type of neutron star, known as a magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, moving across the Milky Way at over 110,000 mph. The object is considered a “zombie star” due to its ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

This rare stellar remnant is known as a magnetar. It's a type of neutron star, which is formed when a large star dies and ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.