According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The Milky Way didn’t go on forever; rather the Universe was filled with other galaxies (now known to number in the hundreds of billions). This was just the beginning. Hubble set about searching ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

The galaxy in question also possesses vastly more dark matter than the Milky Way, hinting at a connection between active black holes and the abundance of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries ... radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat.

of the Milky Way. The CMZ, which contains tens of millions of solar masses of gas at the heart of the galaxy, produces far fewer stars than expected. While previous studies linked this anomaly to ...