The sun is much more than a bright light in the sky. It's a giant ball of burning gas that holds our cosmic neighborhood ...

A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.

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

The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest stunning images have allowed scientists to solve the mystery of the Bullseye Galaxy’s plentiful rings.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Astronomers have identified what they believe to be the largest structure in the universe to date. Named "Quipu" after the ancient Incan method of record-keeping, this colossal superstructure ...

Fermi’s Paradox, posed in the context of alien life, now applies online as well. Trolls have pushed many of us to stay off ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...

Astronomers have found a huge cosmic structure called Quipu. It spans 1.3 billion light-years, making it 13,000 times bigger ...

Nasa is directing the James Webb Space Telescope to track asteroid 2024 YR4, whose collision risk with Earth has risen to 2.3 ...