“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been anticipating the chance to compare my predictions to new data for four years, ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

During the course of a 13-second exposure, the International Space Station makes a trail of light in the sky as the station ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind.

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

The LEGO Milky Way Galaxy set #31212 is currently $199.99 elsewhere (even during Prime Day), but Insiders members can get it ...

The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...