A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

UC Irvine astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest stunning images have allowed scientists to solve the mystery of the Bullseye Galaxy’s ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Scientists have discovered an impressive galaxy with Hubble Space Telescope that has six more rings than other previously known galaxies and an arrow-like feature straight through its heart.

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...