Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...
These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...
Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.
Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...