A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 ...

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

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision never before achieved. Surviving solar radiation and ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy – seen 600 million years after the Big Bang – that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy might have looked like at the same ...

The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light-years from Earth. This relatively "nearby" distance, and its face-on orientation to Earth, make it an ideal ...

That means it's more than 30 times the size of our own Milky Way galaxy. It's also enigmatic, the researchers say, with unusual qualities that defy simple explanation. They decided to name it after ...

Physicist Crespo, through his Quantum Fracture account, recently explained that the Sun could change galaxies: "Andromeda, the largest galaxy in ... it from the Milky Way and, just at their ...

The discovery was published on Jan 17 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a peer-reviewed scientific ...