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," ...

NASA scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could change how we understand the dynamics of exoplanetary systems ...

These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second. There is another star that is almost as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...