What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way ... as our solar system's, similar ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work ... light years across, and that our solar system was 50,000 light-years from the ...