Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

Far from the harsh galaxy center, they reached a location that is hospitable for life.

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the Milky Way suburbs.

A galaxy whose light set out when Tyrannosaurus rex had just died out has been captured in striking detail by the James Webb Space Telescope. Two instruments aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA observatory have ...

Super galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe. Now, a particularly large one has been measured, ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

Now a pair of studies published today in Astronomy and Astrophysics argue that the sun did not make this journey alone. The telltale sign of the sun’s galactic journey is its chemical composition, ...

In a cosmic unveiling that transforms our celestial map, astronomers discover the Vela-Banzi supercluster, a monumental structure hidden behind the Milky Way. This revelation carries profound ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence for our sun joining a mass migration of similar "twins" leaving the core regions of our galaxy, 4 to 6 billion years ago. The team created and studied an ...

New research suggests our Sun was part of a huge migration of Sun-like stars that moved away from the Milky Way’s center billions of years ago.

New 3D map of the early universe from HETDEX reveals faint hydrogen light linking galaxies 9 to 11 billion years ago.

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...