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

Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby galaxies.

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our ...

A UCT-led team has used South Africa's MeerKAT and Salt to reveal a vast hidden supercluster lurking behind the Milky Way.

Astronomers from UCT have uncovered the true scale of one of the largest hidden structures in the nearby Universe.

After a decade of research, Cape Town astronomers have revealed the vast Vela supercluster, a monumental cosmic structure hidden behind the Milky Way, transforming our understanding of galaxy ...

The Milky Way is the immense galactic system that houses Earth, the Sun and countless other stars, planets and cosmic bodies.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity ...

Hidden deep within the Milky Way, a surprising discovery has been made: over 100 black holes tucked away in the Palomar 5 stellar stream. For years, scientists speculated about their existence, but it ...

It is located about 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.