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 ...

It is not surprising that there are regions that are more densely populated by galaxies, and regions that are less populated.

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

Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

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

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...