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Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...
Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...
A team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole drifting through the Milky Way, unaccompanied by ...
Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...
A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Jubett ...
Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.
A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...
Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...
For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...
Simon Smith, a PhD student at UVic and Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s next guest speaker, specializes in finding extremely tiny, ...
Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green ...