Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

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Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

The “Great Attractor” is a fascinating cosmic phenomenon that has long captivated astronomers. The Milky Way and millions of other galaxies in our local universe are being drawn towards it at ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy - seen 600 million years after the Big Bang - that is ...

The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...