"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

High-velocity clouds are thought to be material that is being pulled into another galaxy, in this case the Milky Way, and many are thought to be made of material left over from another galaxy that ...

open image in gallery A group of researchers say they’ve found mysterious ‘space tornadoes’ in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They used the largest astronomical project in existence to ...

A Milky Way Twin in the Early Universe Among these new findings is Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy candidate identified to date, seen at a redshift of 5.2 -- just 1 billion years after ...

It also fulfilled its primary goal of drawing the biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.