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

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

In recent decades, we've learned huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of ...

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 ...

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

The "first page" of an incredible cosmic atlas being built by the Euclid Space Telescope has been released. The millions of stars and galaxies represent just 1% of the 3D map the mission will create.

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

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

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