Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby ...
A new image from the European Southern Observatory reveals a gas cloud orbiting the Milky Way’s central black hole, offering ...
Stretching tens of thousands of light-years above and below the center of the Milky Way are two enormous structures known as ...
For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...
Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The positions and trajectories of 20 hypervelocity stars as reconstructed from data acquired by the Gaia satellite, overlaid on ...
Super galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe. Now, a particularly large one has been measured, ...
Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...
A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...
A group of astronomers led by Evuda Wempe, a graduate student from the Kaptein Institute in Groningen, discovered a giant ...
New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...
Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way cannot keep them. When a star exceeds the galaxy’s escape speed, it becomes ...