A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...

"It's only because this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it's really far away," Anniek ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

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

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is ... this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it’s really far away,” lead author Anniek ...

Ladakh is located within the Himalayas and the Karakoram Range. Its rugged terrain, with high-altitude deserts and sparse ...