In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

For over a decade, the Hubble Space Telescope meticulously observed our closest galactic neighbor, capturing over 1,000 ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

The subatomic particle found near Toulon, France, using an underwater detection experiment is the most energetic neutrino ...

"History shows us that whenever you do open a new 'energy window,' you never really know what you're going to find. It's completely unexplored." ...

The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest stunning images have allowed scientists to solve the mystery of the Bullseye Galaxy’s plentiful rings.

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles ...

The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.