The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

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

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

For example, our Milky Way Galaxy is located on the outer edges of the Laniakea supercluster. As per the study, Quipu is responsible for a "large part of the gravitational pull that causes the ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...