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

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

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

The Milky Way is still being drawn towards the Great Attractor by its gravity as of this writing. and that’ll be the case for a couple more billion years. The Great Attractor’s location in an area of ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light-years from Earth. This relatively "nearby" distance, and its face-on orientation to Earth, make it an ideal ...