Using the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, an international team of astronomers has observed ...

Super galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe. Now, a particularly large one has been measured, ...

A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, revealing rare insights into how the Galactic bulge was built from ancient star ...

A new study suggests the Sun moved outward with many similar stars during a large Milky Way migration event long ago.

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 light-years from Earth and straight into a cosmic time machine. Packed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known objects in the universe. The study may help scientists test theories about how ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided ...