The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

Scientists have used the wobble of the Milky Way and what are known as "cosmic lighthouses" to shine a light on the mystery ...

And Scientists Have No Explanation For It The vast space beyond our planet’s wall was rightly known as the final frontier, ...

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

The Milky Way's tidal forces may be shaping the Oort Cloud's inner structure into a spiral shape.

(CNN) - Astronomers say they have spotted a dazzling light show from the Milky Way’s black hole. The astronomers spotted the ...

The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.

According to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists ...

Scientists have pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which is home to the ...

Northwestern researchers made significant discoveries within the past week. The Daily compiled a recap of their most recent ...