The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way galaxy alone hosts hundreds ...

In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

Using infrared images captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral shape is mainly made up of just two major arms extending from a central bar ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

A team of astronomers has detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

Toblerone fans have been left devastated as the 'best' chocolate bar has been officially axed. Mondelez revealed that the ...

NASA's most powerful telescope has once again left scientists scratching their heads after challenging their understanding of ...

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 ...

two galaxies in close proximity to the Milky Way, are exhibiting unexpected behaviors that suggest a dramatic disruption. Researchers from Nagoya University in Japan have reported that the smaller ...

The SMC and LMC are part of a group of galaxies gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. Both are expected to eventually merge with our galaxy in a few billion years. However, current evidence ...

The galaxy next to ours might be getting torn apart ... from – but the SMC’s stars do not appear to be moving in that way, suggesting that the gas itself is not rotating as expected.