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NASA has released a quintet of images captured in light invisible to the human eye by some of the world's most powerful telescopes.

Researchers have estimated there are more planets that are roaming the galaxy completely alone than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an epic collision in galactic proportions as two galaxies collide headfirst out in deep space.

NASA recently took to its YouTube channel to release data sonification of a black hole's pressure rippling through a galaxy cluster.

The destiny of the Milky Way galaxy was captured by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, showing the distant fate of our universe.

Spanish researchers have found prebiotic molecules in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone, consisting of various nitriles.

UC Berkeley astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to detect a potential free-floating black hole.

Ben Zuckerman of UCLA has argued that advanced alien life may be found in the Milky Way on Dyson spheres encircling white dwarfs.

Of the potentially 15,785 civilizations that may inhabit the Milky Way, just over four may be malicious towards others like Earth.

A new video by NASA compares the size and orbital periods of 22 confirmed X-ray binary systems containing confirmed black holes.

The Event Horizon Telescope has released the second-ever photo of a black hole, now of Sagittarius A* in the Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers from MIT have found eight new 'echoing' black holes in binary systems with companion stars, adding to the known two.

A new paper examining when humanity will become a Type I civilization on the Kardashev scale is currently under peer review.

A team of researchers believes that they have observed one of the brightest megamaser lasers that have ever been recorded.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the IC 2431 triple galaxy merger in the constellation Cancer 681 million light-years away.

Researchers from Leiden University have discovered the largest radio galaxy yet at 16.3 million light-years long, named Alcyoneus.

Astronomers have snapped a 'remarkable' image of the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, showcasing a supermassive black hole.

Researchers detected radio waves coming from objects at the center of the Milky Way, and then they mysteriously disappeared.

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has begun observing the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) in the Milky Way.

Researchers from Caltech and the University of Toronto have identified the second-ever tidal disruption event (TDE) using radio.

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, a new star has been found orbiting Sagittarius A*.

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has been spiking in activity, creating jets leaking matter and energy.

A team of astronomers discovered a strangely massive black hole at the center of a galaxy that is orbiting the Milky Way.

ESA's Gaia mission has released new data, showing galaxies thought to have been orbiting the Milky Way for eons are newcomers.

A team of astronomers has discovered a 'barrier' at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. How/why it works currently is unknown.

An astronomer has found what could be evidence of Planet Nine being found decades ago, which may assist astronomers in a search.

The European Southern Observatory has posted a video detailing the discovery of the first black hole found outside of our galaxy.

Astronomers have detected the very first black hole ever to be found outside of our galaxy, marking a moment in astronomy.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has posted an image of one of the most unusual nebulas that have been found in our Milky Way galaxy.

NASA released an image taken by its Hubble Space Telescope of a 'space pumpkin' with 'two glowing eyes' and a crooked smile.

Astronomers are claiming that they may have just detected the first planet outside of our galaxy - 28 million light-years away.

The former head of Harvard's astronomy department has claimed that our universe could have been created by aliens in a lab.

NASA has released an absolutely jaw-dropping image of the globular cluster known as Palomar 6. The image was taken by Hubble.

NASA's new study details the discovery of our Milky Way galaxy having a 'broken' arm that stretches a huge 3,000 light-years.

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to locate what is believed to be the oldest planet ever found in the Milky Way.

Astronomers have found a massive galactic structure extending around the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study.

Researchers published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that explores a star traveling towards the edge of our galaxy.

The Event Horizon Telescope has managed to capture images of a supermassive black hole emitting a jet in unprecedented detail.

Researchers have just located what appears to be the smallest and most massive white dwarf that astronomers have ever seen.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has shown off a weird galaxy called DF2 that is 'see-through' and seems to lack dark matter.

Researchers have released a new dramatic image that shows off an incredible cosmic birthplace of stars in never-before-seen detail.

Researchers have located what is now the earliest black hole ever found, dating back to the earliest stages of the universe.

Scientists have become confused with the Hubble Space Telescope's recent discovery of a galaxy that weirdly lacks dark matter.

NASA has released a stunning image taken by the Chanda X-ray Observatory that shows off the chaotic heart of the Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers have discovered the most ancient spiral galaxy in the Universe, which helps answers a common question in astronomy.

Researchers detected the most energetic light that has ever been found, and it's more energetic than the Large Hadron Collider.

Hubble is celebrating Mothers Day by showing off a region of space that has been responsible for raising millions of stars.

In celebration of Hubble's 31st birthday, the space telescope released an image of one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an incredible image of one of the distant planets in our solar system - Saturn.

Here's an animation of how fast Earth is rotating relative to the Sun, Milky Way galaxy and the Cosmic Microwave Background.