According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

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 ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just ... It's five times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy ... four million times greater than our sun sits at the center of the galaxy. The motion of gas swirling around ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...