Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

NEW YORK — A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea has sniffed out the most energetic ghost particle yet, scientists reported Wednesday. The newly detected neutrino is around 30 times ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

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

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.

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

The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...

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

SpaceX will launch a new round of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station into lower Earth orbit on ...

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

In a study that was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers used Hubble to find eight observable ...