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 ...

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

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...

I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as I took myself out to remote dark sites to capture images. For many ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.