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

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

In a nutshell A rare cosmic alignment has given astronomers an unprecedented view of two galaxies from 7 billion years ago, ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

has lifted the lid on where in space these signals could be coming from. One of the pulsating signals was tracked back to its source — a red dwarf, a common star in the milky way, which was ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing ... interact with itself? Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety ... distances in the cosmos.. Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...