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

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

They published a paper in the May 2008 issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “The Collision Between the Milky Way and Andromeda.” (Admittedly, be wary of the term ...

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

By Katrina Miller NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 ... 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way. For a century, exoplanet hunters ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive ... lots of loop-de-loops around other planets on the way. These moves are known as gravity assists, where ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of LEDA 1313424, the Bullseye galaxy, which measures 2.5x larger than the Milky Way. LEDA 1313424 has more rings than any other known galaxy in ...

The Resilience lander, a partnership with Japan's space agency JAXA, is taking a long way to the moon to save on fuel, arriving about four to five months after launch. Blue Origin's first flight ...

Space is all around us. We live on planet Earth but there are loads more planets up in space. There are also stars and moons. The closest star to Earth is the Sun. In our solar system there are 8 ...