The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...
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 ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society ...
The Paris-based digital aggregator Under The Milky Way (UMW) is celebrating the successful global distribution of 28 European ...
The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...
Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.