The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft ...

Space might seem calm when gazing up at the night sky, but invisible waves ripple continuously through the universe, bending ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia telescope has provided data to further scientists' understanding of the Milky Way galaxy, such as the ability to create this face-on model, and the stars within it.

A huge family of newborn stars seem to now be going their separate ways: Over 1,000 stars are hurriedly fleeing their nest in ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe's gravitational wave background—the constant flow of waves that churn through the cosmos, ...

Distant quasars may hold the key to spotting elusive gravitational waves—and revealing hidden dimensions of the universe.

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive ...

An astonishing fact only known for the past few decades is that every big galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black ...

In a groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists have uncovered an unusual star cluster called Ophion that challenges our understanding of how star families evolve. Located ...