Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Iceland took to social media to share the news that Milky Way Crispy Rolls will arrive for just one week from Saturday, February 4 alongside two new additions ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Valentine’s Day just got a whole lot more fun, thanks to Lego. A new Lego set lets you build your very own version of the ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, is unveiled in Hubble's largest photomosaic. Spanning a decade, this 2.5-billion-pixel image reveals 200 million stars and Andromeda’s dynamic ...

Gaia has therefore built the most precise map of the Milky Way to date, giving the ESA a detailed reconstructed view of our home galaxy. “It contains major changes from previous models ...

RX J0648.0–4418 is a shrinking white dwarf star spinning every 13 seconds The star gains mass from its companion, nearing the Chandrasekhar limit This binary system may witness a supernova explosion ...

Musk welcomed six kids with his first wife ... longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.” Two years later, Musk claimed he had been “essentially ...

Like the nickname suggests, these celestial objects appear to be compact—much smaller than our Milky Way galaxy. And their color is reddish, although their light signatures are also unusual in ways ...