Milky way

"I was pretty excited. Coming into the internship, it would be hard to say that I expected to find a planet," Wolf Cukier said.

One planet, known as Proxima b, has already been detected around the star.

"It's not just a rare chance event. There has to be a mechanism to form them," study author Anna Ciurlo told "Newsweek."

Betelgeuse a nearby red supergiant star which is up to 20 times more massive than our sun.

The "Radcliffe wave" was discovered with new data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite.

FRB 180916 is only the second repeating fast radio burst to be traced back to its source galaxy.

Researchers in China found a star 15,000 light years away orbiting a "dark companion" that defies theories of stellar evolution.

The center of our galaxy is located around 26,500 light-years away from Earth.

The latest findings could have important implications for our understanding of how massive stars form.

Researchers say that the object is moving around ten times faster than most stars in the galaxy.

An excessive amount of gas has been discovered flowing into the Milky Way galaxy—though the reason behind the phenomenon remains a mystery.

Images from the James Webb Space Telescope will be the highest quality ever obtained, researchers say.

Researchers estimate that the explosion lasted for approximately 300,000 years.

"We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole," researcher Andrea Ghez said.

The two balloon-like structures stretch hundreds of light-years and are thought to have formed in a violent eruption seven million years ago.

Astronomers found a "runaway star," dubbed PG 1610+062, in the outer halo of the Milky Way.

Scientists are now trying to work out what caused the mystery burst .

Of course, more detailed work is needed to verify that the true complexity of the observations can also be modelled successfully.

Scientists found the enormous black hole after spotting an "unusual" object at the core of a bright galaxy cluster about 700 million light years from Earth.

Japanese researchers propose new plan to hunt down our galaxy's "isolated black holes."

The three planets are among the smallest and closest exoplanets found to date, according to astronomers.

Astronomers have cast new light on a huge, empty expanse of space that surrounds our galaxy known as the Local Void.

Merger with Gaia Enceladus has allowed scientists to find the original stars from our galaxy's formation.

The exploding star system is located around 7,500 light years away in the constellation Carina (The Ship's Keel.)

Scientists believe there are more pieces of plastic in the ocean than stars in the Milky Way.

Harvard's Ana Bonaca says there is evidence of a "dark substructure" in the Milky Way's halo.

"We usually think of spiral galaxies as being quite flat."

In ancient Egyptian mythology, Sun god Ra would battle with Apep, the god of chaos, every night.

The collision took place 10 billion years ago, when the universe was just three or four billion years old.

The observations offer "a resounding confirmation" of the supermassive black hole long-believed to be lurking at the heart of our galaxy.