New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

The six curiosities that Brown and Batygin identified have elongated elliptical orbits whose perihelia (their ... distance from just outside Neptune's orbit to all the way in to Uranus and even ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

One day, however, the two galaxies may collide, forming a giant, egg-shaped elliptical galaxy. But that great merger won't happen for billions of years. Mark is an award-winning journalist and the ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Update, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025: This article has been updated with details on the Galaxy S25 chipset and performance implications. Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event in January 2024 saw the launch ...

Star formation is usually nearly non-existent in large elliptical galaxies, which represent the final stage in galaxy evolution. Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct ...

Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And it is getting closer, as the two will merge in several billion years. It has been an object of study for centuries, but we have never ...

With Samsung’s community eagerly expecting the new Galaxy S25 family to launch in mid to late January, many are wondering when they can put down their name for one of the new handsets.