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

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of dark ... we see around us such as stars, planets, moons, you, me and basically everything else, accounts ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...

Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way. New research ... planets, moons, and even you. "Think of the circumgalactic ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...