The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the charming Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the ...

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

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered a new type of long, narrow “slim filaments” in the Milky Way’s central molecular zone, revealing surprising details about shock-induced material circulation near ...

If our galaxy lies inside such a void ... The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers per second. In the νHDM model, this value fits nicely ...

Scientists think the two galaxies passed through each other, giving a preview of the inevitable collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies. Our galaxy is predicted to collide with ...

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the ... Quiescent galaxies are common immediately around the Milky Way. That's expected because the further away we look, the further back ...