You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...

Scientists Identify the Oldest Material on Earth in a Meteorite, Stunned to Find It Predates the Sun Scientists analyzed ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without ... For galaxies like ours, which are ...

According to a new study, the carbon atoms that form part of all life on Earth may have traveled outside the galaxy first.

This diagram illustrates how rays of light from a distant galaxy or star can be bent by the gravity of an intervening galaxy ...

Due to the Earth’s position inside the Galaxy, we see the stars of the other arms of the Milky Way as a band arcing across the sky. In the UK we are looking towards the centre of the galaxy and ...

Using a technique called gravitational lensing, the team of researchers was able to make their historic stellar discovery in a distant galaxy located nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth.

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the ...