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

Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Ring galaxies are some of the rarest galaxies found throughout our universe, and for years scientists have scratched their heads, trying to figure out exactly how these galaxies came to be.

In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei ...

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

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe. Research led by the University of ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

With these observations, astronomers have valuable new insights into when the first jets formed in the Universe and how they impacted the evolution of galaxies. From decades of astronomical ...