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 ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected ...

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

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was ...

Scientists have made a significant discovery using an observatory stationed deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily. They have detected a mysterious subatomic particle known as a neutrino, ...

In a groundbreaking development, scientists based in New York have announced the identification of a neutrino of exceptional power utilizing a detector positioned beneath the Mediterranean Sea. This ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea has sniffed out the most energetic ghost particle yet, ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...