About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

This image by Taiwanese photographer Shang Yao-Yuan shows that you don't need the latest kit to capture the cosmos ...

We live inside the Milky Way, but we don’t know where it actually ends. This is the stunning truth about our galaxy’s hidden ...

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

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

These icy chrome nails radiate dreamy, snow-fairy energy. Silver embellishments and bluish-pink chrome add to the winter ...

A good queso dip is silky and bright, but a bad one can be flavorless, oversalted, or have an unpleasant texture. So which ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

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

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...