The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

One of the largest galaxies ever found, the behemoth is about 1.44 billion light-years away and reckoned to be 32 times the ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

The Paris-based digital aggregator Under The Milky Way (UMW) is celebrating the successful global distribution of 28 European ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...