Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence that the Milky Way is currently merging with a massive galactic structure hidden within ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

When we look up and see the Milky Way as a pale band in the night sky, we’re only seeing a tiny slice of our galaxy. In this video, we leave the plane of the disk and travel “up” and “down” to explore ...

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

A Canadian-led team of researchers has discovered a 'baby' galaxy cluster in the early universe surrounded by gas far hotter ...

We are going to be getting a lot of exciting new information about galaxies in 2026, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who can't ...

A seemingly impossible cluster of more than 30 galaxies crammed into a volume just 500,000 light-years across has been found ...

The cluster hosts a reservoir of gas so hot it has left scientists rethinking their understanding of how galaxies form and ...