Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

The Sun, along with more than 1,500 other stars, journeyed from the middle of the Milky Way to its current position a few billion years ago.

Our Sun is actually a cosmic refugee. Around 4.6 billion years ago, it first ignited in a hostile, radiation-blasted neighborhood 10,000 light-years closer to the Milky Way’s center than it is now.

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years outward to the peaceful galactic suburbs it currently occupies. Now a pair ...

A supernova, the explosive end of a massive star's life cycle, is among the brightest phenomena in the universe—typically ...

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, and star cluster in Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Photographer Alan Dyer ...

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

The Hulk has always prided himself on being the strongest and will smash apart anyone or anything that gets in his way.

Greetings stargazers. Occasionally, the calendar aligns so that I get to complain about daylight saving time in this column on the same weekend it goes into effect. I need to take the chance to do ...

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...