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

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

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," ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.

ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

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

Mapping the distribution of matter in the universe is an important quest for cosmology and astrophysics. There is a battle ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

The new novel from the author of Understory explores what happens when mining dramatically changes life on Earth.