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

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

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 ...

Astronomers have directly observed a free-floating planet, comparable in mass to Earth, roaming the Milky Way. Discovered via gravitational microlensing due to its brief light curve, this rogue world ...

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

"SPT2349-56 changes everything we thought we understood," says one Canadian researcher.

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

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

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 China detected an unusual cloud of neutral hydrogen near the spiral galaxy ...