A recent study reveals that the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 "pinwheel star" holds more mystery but is even less likely to be the ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

That's far faster than our slowpoke Sun, which orbits the center of our galaxy at about half a million miles per hour.

Andromeda XXXV, the smallest and faintest galaxy ever observed. Located three million light-years away, this miniature galaxy ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

Scientists have detected a potential exoplanet using an unusual method — tracking shifts in another planet’s orbit. The hot Jupiter TOI-2818b was found to have an unexpected timing variation, hinting ...

We're actually doing it all the time. We live on a rotating planet, that orbits a star, that moves around a galaxy, that rockets through the universe constantly. But how fast are we moving ...

They each orbit around their common center of mass. Because the density of galaxies is high within clusters, galaxy collisions occur. One such collision can be seen in the lower right of the image ...

They orbit the Milky Way at a distance of about ... Confirming if a nearby dwarf galaxy is a Milky Way satellite involves spectroscopy — analysis of the light it emits — to determine its ...

Northwestern University scientists have detected the first radio pulses that can be traced to a dead-star binary.