Astronomers have found a massive radio jet, stretching across at least 200,000 light-years in the distant universe. The ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

the closest galaxy to the Milky Way. The resulting colossal image was stitched together from 600 different fields of view, is made of at least 2.5 billion pixels and took more than a decade to create.

I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off ... In brighter skies, see if you can find the open cluster IC 4756 in Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake).

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of the cosmic woods.

when researchers precisely measured the motions of many stars within the Andromeda Galaxy and found that these stars were approaching the Milky Way. Presently, the two galaxies are moving toward ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due ... do that with any other large galaxy." Here's how to see it:Planetary alignments aren ...