Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...

Our Solar System is located within a low-density region known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This bubble is filled with a ...

Recently, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics made a surprising discovery within the LHB.

The Local Hot Bubble was first suggested over 50 years ago, with scientists theorising that a series of supernovas - massive ...

Astronomers say they've found an "interstellar tunnel" near our solar system that potentially leads to the vicinity of other ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

Space is teeming with objects that, from the right perspective, might resemble things we're familiar with. This visual ...