"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space bubbles came from.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

Scientists have discovered that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is larger than should be expected considering the size of our local galactic neighborhood. A viral video of a giant red moon rising ...

The smallest, dimmest galaxy orbiting Andromeda to date. Image: CFHT/MegaCam/PAndAS (Principal investigator: Alan McConnachie; Image processing: Marcos Arias A group of astronomers has discovered ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.