A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...
Astronomers have found a massive radio jet, stretching across at least 200,000 light-years in the distant universe. The ...
Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.
New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...