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 ...

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 ...

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

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with ...

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the Sun or any other star. The.

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

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas that births suns and planets, and it lies within a halo of dark matter, the ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

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

Breaking with decades of haloscope design, the ALPHA and MADMAX collaborations are pushing the search for dark matter into a ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...