The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...

A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...

Scientists may have detected dark matter’s first signal through ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. If true, it could challenge ...

The Milky Way's tidal forces may be shaping the Oort Cloud's inner structure into a spiral shape.

NASA has released new cosmic images captured by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. The images feature stellar phenomena ...