Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Astronomers have found a massive radio jet, stretching across at least 200,000 light-years in the distant universe. The ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

when researchers precisely measured the motions of many stars within the Andromeda Galaxy and found that these stars were approaching the Milky Way. Presently, the two galaxies are moving toward ...

But what of smaller astronomical bodies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy that is expected to collide with the Milky Way in 2.4 billion years ... by rewinding their proper ...

The Bullseye galaxy is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings ... It’s easy to see how it got its nickname thanks to its star-studded rings. Astronomers have now ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble's results suggested the farther away a galaxy was ... would be amazed to see such progress.