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

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it ...

Astronomers have identified the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way, a discovery that reshapes our understanding of the ...

Earth-based telescope has discovered a Milky-Way-like galaxy that existed when the Universe was only 700 million years old.

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their ...

A panoramic mosaic, which has been enlarged 600 times, highlights the structures of a spiral galaxy along with 260 sightings ...

Galaxies as orderly as the Milky Way weren't supposed to exist more than 10 billion years ago. Now astronomers have found one ...

Rebel Galaxy Astronomers have made a "baffling" discovery while peering into some of the furthest reaches of our universe: ...

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

A population of stars more than 13 billion years old represents the original disk from which the Milky Way formed, a team of ...

The final 3D atlas of the sky will help scientists study dark matter and dark energy, which make up 96 percent of the ...