Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. A team of astronomers from England used that farthest point to determine that the diameter of the ...

There's a new interstellar comet in the neighborhood! Known as 3I/ATLAS, this comet poses no threat to Earth – but it does ...

A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...

The star S4716 orbits the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, coming as close to it as 9.2 billion miles. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Milky Way galaxy is around 100,000 light-years in diameter, containing our solar system and many other objects. Our solar system orbits the galaxy's center, taking about 250 million years to ...

Astronomers have released an ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor galaxy obtained with 50 hours of observations using one of the world's biggest telescopes.

Researchers estimate that the jet spans nearly 200,000 light-years, more than twice the diameter of our own galaxy. It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date.

Within the Milky Way itself there are hypervelocity stars that probably originated here. ... It is 163,000 light-years from Earth and has a diameter of approximately 14,000 light-years.

THERE’S some real stars quality in the nightscapes nominated for the annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year. Photos taken from space, Chile and the US are all in the running for the out-of… ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an intriguing article, amid several large adverts for fur coats. The ...

The Milky Way galaxy is around 100,000 light-years in diameter, containing our solar system and many other objects. Our solar system orbits the galaxy's center, taking about 250 million years to ...