Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the outskirts of the Milky Way—the first direct evidence of star formation in such an ...

For the first time, an international collaboration of more than 800 scientists has joined forces to track down the sources of ...

A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown mini-galaxy leftover from an ancient cosmic crash. The "collision within a ...

A seemingly regular, Sun-like star began acting really weird, flickering haphazardly as its light faded in and out. The cause of the star’s strange behavior may have been a cosmic catastrophe that’s ...

The Sun has been a powerful source of energy fueling the solar system for billions of years, but our host star may have had rough beginnings. A new study suggests the Sun migrated away from the center ...

Milky Way billions of years ago. This remarkable journey, revealed through the most detailed catalog of similar stars to date, transforms our understanding of the solar system’s origins. Published in ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

What does it look like two planets collide? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a pair of resear | Space ...

Astronomers have collected evidence of a violent collision between two planets in a distant star system. The first clues of this cataclysmic event came when a rather boring star began behaving very ...

Astronomers say a distant, sunlike star shows signs of a catastrophic planet-on-planet crash that may mirror the ancient impact that formed Earth's moon.

The Sun, along with more than 1,500 other stars, journeyed from the middle of the Milky Way to its current position a few billion years ago.