Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

A theory by Albert Einstein has helped astronomers discover a rare exoplanet, sparking new ideas of where they can be found.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

A surprising new look at the Milky Way has scientists rethinking everything we thought we knew about our home galaxy. Thanks to a groundbreaking method developed by astronomers fro ...

Chinese researchers examining European data find freshly formed stars rotate much faster than their predecessors.

A team of astronomers say they've gleaned the mysterious structures of our galaxy's supermassive black hole by training an AI model. But a pretty big name on the field is throwing a little bit of cold ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century ...