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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42 ...

Like a bustling city, this galaxy is compact at its core, while newer stars are forming at an accelerated rate in the outer ...

When the researchers studied the polarization of the broad spectrum of light emitted by the eROSITA bubbles, they found huge, ...

Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way, that is strongly rotation-dominated, challenges our ...

An unusual discovery in a remote Milky-Way-like galaxy is challenging our current theories on galactic formation.