A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet ...

The Hubble orbiting telescope took pictures of the galaxy NGC 4569, or Messier 90. This galaxy is approaching the Milky Way ...

Scientists from the SAGA Survey have studied 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies, revealing that our galaxy may have fewer satellite ...

Modern astronomy has clung to the belief that the relativistic outflows or jets, responsible for the existence of ...

REBELS-25, a galaxy resembling the Milky Way found in the early universe, defies traditional models with its orderly ...

A galaxy has been discovered in a place where it shouldn't exist, baffling astronomers with its location and age. This galaxy ...

Astronomers have used data from the European Gaia Space Telescope to discover 55 high-speed stars launched from the young ...

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large ...

A rocky exoplanet located 4,000 light years away provides a possible preview of the Sun and Earth's fate 8 billion of years ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest strongly rotating galaxy ever seen that's well-organized rather than chaotic, ...

Just as with smaller satellites that orbit the Earth, these satellite galaxies are captured by the gravitational pull of the massive host galaxy and its surrounding dark matter. The Milky Way ...