Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Around the galaxy exist stars that have been given a push, and orbit much faster than the vast majority of their stellar ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

A new mathematical model sheds light on how the brain processes different cues, such as sights and sounds, during decision making.

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...