The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

Thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, we can now dive deeper into our home galaxy. From dazzling star clusters to swirling nebulae, these stunning images reveal the Milky Way’s hidden beauty.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

Astronomers have discovered 'Bullseye,' a record-breaking galaxy with nine rings—six more than any other known galaxy.

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Lose yourself in the best space books out there as we round up ... Astronomers have written the Milky Way's story many times over; scientists have traced violent collisions in its past and future ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 questions below. Remember to log in to put your name on the leaderboard and ...