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

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...

Stretching tens of thousands of light-years above and below the center of the Milky Way are two enormous structures known as the Fermi Bubbles. These vast clouds of extremely hot plasma emit powerful ...

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 ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

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.

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years outward to the peaceful galactic suburbs it currently occupies. Now a pair ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

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

Astronomers from the University of Groningen have discovered that the Milky Way does not move in the cosmic void, but is embedded in a flat "sheet" of dark matter. This was reported on March 11 in the ...

Scientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The observations could open a window to the ancient universe as it appeared shortly after ...

A group of astronomers led by Evuda Wempe, a graduate student from the Kaptein Institute in Groningen, discovered a giant ...