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

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

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

Astronomers have found a massive radio jet, stretching across at least 200,000 light-years in the distant universe. The ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Space has always captured human curiosity. Whether it's vastness, mystery or its planetary bodies. Many individuals, at some ...

Scientists have officially given a name to the largest solar structure in the known universe. Astronomers have found the ...

Estimating distances in astronomy is challenging ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way's size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could provide a stellar environment hospitable to life-supporting exoplanets, accordin ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images ...