An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

The night sky from a national park is spectacularly dark. More stars are visible than you can imagine, and the Milky Way ...

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

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night ... arm of the galaxy because ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... stupendous galaxy. For me the revelation came the first time ...

It’s a dwarf galaxy satellite of the Milky Way looking fuzzy in the sky. What you wouldn’t know from looking at it, is that it’s being torn apart by another satellite, also visible to the ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass." Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever ...

Astronomers have discovered "space tornadoes" raging through the heart of the Milky Way in the vicinity of our galaxy's central ... on the latest missions, night sky and more!

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... than the moon in the night sky. This form of explosion, known ...