SGR 0501+4516, one of the roughly 30 known magnetars in the Milky Way, was discovered in 2008 after NASA’s Swift Observatory detected gamma-ray flashes at the galaxy’s edge. Unlike typical magnetars, ...

Astronomers have spotted the farthest spiral galaxy ever seen. Its light has travelled 12.8 billion years to reach Earth.

An Artificial Intelligence model has predicted that our galaxy has 44 planets that are just like Earth. Scientists say the ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Could the universe be rotating? Discover how this theory may solve the Hubble tension in modern cosmology and physics.

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

In the scale of the universe, the planet is a neighbor, sharing the Milky Way galaxy with Earth. They made their groundbreaking discovery after conducting a repeated analysis of observations made on ...

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...