A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

A team of Italian astronomers discovered a fossil galaxy estimated to be 3 billion light-years away from Earth, making it the most distant spectacle of its kind outside of the local universe. Dubbed ...

The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

Our Solar System orbits the galactic center at an estimated 792,000 kilometers per hour, taking 225 million Earth years to ...

Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.

(Santa Barbara, California) — A tiny galaxy, nearly halfway across the universe, the smallest in size and mass known to exist at that distance, has been identified by an international team of ...

Could we turn our solar system into a spaceship and drive the Sun around the galaxy? Interstellar travel is horrible and deadly. Much safer to stay on here Earth with our gloriously habitable ...

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

Your motion through the universe is extremely complicated, so let’s figure it out! Perhaps you’ve seen videos of how the planets of the solar system move through the universe in this cool helix. Not ...