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

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

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 ...

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

The discovery was published on Jan 17 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a peer-reviewed scientific ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.