Stars are born in families before dispersing, but we have never seen one that has broken up anything like this fast.

"Ophion is filled with stars that are set to rush out across the galaxy in a totally haphazard, uncoordinated way, which is far from what we’d expect for a family so big," said Dylan Huson of Western ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

Stars in the Milky Way tend to form in families, with similar stars springing to life in roughly the same place at roughly ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

By examining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia space probe, which were gathered from 2021 to 2022, the team ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

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

A rogue magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, is crossing our galaxy without a clear trace of its birth, according to a study ...

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 ...

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

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