For the first time ever, scientists detected planets outside our galaxy. You read that right. But on reading that — or many of the other breathless headlines on the subject — the mind reels with ...

An international team of astronomers led by Durham University and including astronomers at the UK Astronomy Technology Center has reported the first detection of a rotating disk structure around a ...

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The Milky Way is apparently a hotspot for stars immigrating from other galaxies. In a new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a trio of astronomers set out to find ...

A team of researchers with members from Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidad Andres Bello has found evidence of a large extragalactic assembly ...

For a long time, Mars has been the de facto choice for humanity’s first “do-over,” but with Elon Musk well on his way to being crowned Martian Memelord or whatever, that already seems poised for ...

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio signals from space. Reading time 2 minutes For lovers of cool astronomy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression showing the HH 1177 system. The young and massive stellar object glowing in the center is collecting matter ...