"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of ...

Right now, about 60 are known to surround the Milky Way, but the expectation is ... two galaxies form beside each other, like our galaxy and its nearest neighbor. Gravity from both galaxies ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

It also fulfilled its primary goal of drawing the biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...