Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

the closest galaxy to the Milky Way. The resulting colossal image was stitched together from 600 different fields of view, is made of at least 2.5 billion pixels and took more than a decade to create.

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

"This is the first time that we can see such detailed structures for an external galaxy." Due to its proximity to the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy appears six times the diameter of the full ...

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

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

As more data piled up, 19th century astronomers started to see that the nebulae ... moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due ... do that with any other large galaxy." Here's how to see it:Planetary alignments aren ...

For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the Milky Way ... galaxy a staggering 34 billion light years away, seen just 200 million years after the big bang, when the universe was 20 times ...

The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way. The observations recorded ... Here's how to see it: Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets ...