A fast-moving star, possibly with an exoplanet, has been detected in the Milky Way, challenging current astrophysical models.

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity star. The pair are thought to be moving at roughly 1.2million mph.

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

The Bullseye is now confirmed to have nine rings, eight of which are visible to Hubble. Researchers confirmed the existence ...