A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in ...

Scientists say they've uncovered the "largest known galactic structure" — a cosmic monster that spans a mind-boggling 1.4 ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda are speeding toward each other, raising the prospect of a galactic merger. A new study suggests ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the ...

"We see for the first time the effect of a quasar's radiation directly on the internal structure of the gas in an otherwise ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

A galaxy remarkably similar in shape to our own Milky Way, yet significantly bigger and dating back to the universe's infancy ...

( Nanowerk News) Researchers led by Ph.D student Serikbek Sailanbek from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure ...