US and Canada-based scientists revealed in a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that up to 18% of ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...

Galactic gravity can dramatically impact wide binary stars, pushing them towards unexpected mergers or collisions. The ...

Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves' signature Rigorer basketball shoes are dropping in a 'Milky Way' colorway on January ...

While the extra-galactic stars provided a microlensing effect, large clusters of dark matter provided a macrolensing effect.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and destruction that shapes our galactic environment. Scientists may have unco ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...