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

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Jubett ...

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

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

A giant molecular cloud has just been discovered in the Milky Way. This structure, located 23,000 light-years away, weighs the equivalent of 160,000 times our Sun. Using the Green Bank ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

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.

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

“It definitely puts a pin in the map ... galaxy’s compact size supports this idea — it looks like it’s only about 230 light-years across, compared with 100,000 light-years for the Milky Way.

Ancient Greek philosophers debated the Milky Way’s nature, with some attributing it to celestial fires and others viewing it as a dense cluster of distant stars. Credit: Ale RaFlo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole ... while approximately one-third of them rotated counterclockwise. The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise, putting it in the minority.

Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like ...