In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

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

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing ... of dark matter that envelops our galaxy. "This work opens a promising ...

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

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed ... a flashlight at you on a dark night. Galaxies come in a very wide range of sizes and ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The Andromeda Galaxy is a time capsule of the early universe, containing stars and other celestial objects that date back to the dawn of time. On a clear, dark ... with the Milky Way, resulting ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way ... galaxy M32, that may be the residual core of a galaxy that once collided with Andromeda E - Dark ...

The Milky Way and millions ... Unlike galaxies and galaxy groups, the Laniakea is not gravitationally bound due to its immense size. All of the components of the Universe are slowly separating at an ...