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

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

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

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely comes from the Milky Way's disc, as astronomers ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a planet with a surface of molten magma and a sulfur-rich atmosphere, 34 light-years away in the constellation Volans. This planet is larger than Earth but less dense, ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

MOTHRA observing at night. Each mount is equipped with a wide area web cam. Besides the mount in the foreground two others ...

A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can ...

The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory is training star guides to transform the Karoo’s night skies into economic ...