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Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 km/s) - one fifth of light speed.

For the first time, astronomers have caught the moment when a supermassive black hole flare triggers a mighty wind blasting out into space at relativistic speeds.

Early human ancestors might have looked up and seen the bright balls of gas searing through the skies, as astronomers believe they were so close they would have been clearly visible from Earth ...

NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in them.

A NASA astronomer has claimed the famous star of Bethlehem was likely a known interstellar object, citing ancient Chinese records of a "broom star" seen in 5 B.C. around Jesus' birth ...

Markarian 178 lingers quietly in the constellation Ursa Major, a mere 13 million light years from our own home planet earth. As a blue compact dwarf galaxy, it's around 5,700 light-years wide, small in comparison to the Milky Way's vast expanse. ...

New images of two novae are 'like going from a grainy black-and-white photo to high-definition video.'

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detected significant amounts of methanol and hydrogen cyanide in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

By pioneering a new method that studies our galaxy from the inside out, astronomers using data collected from the Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey (GES) have uncovered surprising hidden features of the Milky Way's spiral structure For ages,