Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

New research suggests it is unlikely NASA’s plans to obtain samples from Enceladus' liquid oceans will provide clear evidence ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

Clear, crisp nights have recently afforded us a fabulous view of the night sky. Interest in astronomy has increased in the last year with planet parades, northern lights, eclipses and comets. Thank yo ...

Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank ...