The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

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

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

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

In a desperate attempt to make money, she goes to work for “The Milky Way,” a breast milk dairy that provides rich mothers ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

This “monster” radio jet, as outlets such as the Associated Press have deemed it, is streaming from a quasar. Quasar are ...

The part of the world where we live lies exactly halfway between Earth’s equator and the North Pole. Mid-latitude locations like Minnesota’s feature distinct seasons in which the ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...