Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

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

The research team said these rings likely formed when a smaller galaxy shot through the heart of the Bullseye galaxy roughly ...

Discover the extraordinary Einstein ring discovered by the Euclid space telescope. A perfect ring of light encircling galaxy ...

Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching approximately 1.3 billion light-years long—more than 13,000 ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

Astronomers may have discovered the fastest-moving planet system ever found, moving through our galaxy at speeds of at least ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...