A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

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

A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

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

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size, and structure—something no one expected to see so soon. Ancient Light Reveals a Familiar Shape Astronomers have ...

"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 ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size, and stellar mass," she adds. Its disk spans over 60,000 light-years, comparable to our own galaxy ...

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 ...