New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in our night sky. As soon as it gets dark ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

Professor Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist from Harvard University, told MailOnline why he thinks a new ...

The Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids meteor showers, which will both peak July 30, also coincide with a third ...

People often say Karachi is too big, too crowded, too messy — and they’re not wrong. With 20 million people and ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.

A surprising discovery at the heart of the Milky Way is forcing scientists to rethink how massive structures called Fermi ...

A newly discovered object from deep space may be the oldest comet ever observed—possibly more than 7 billion years old, and ...