Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory has produced the most accurate map of the Milky Way, with the position and motion of almost 2 billion stars being used to better understand our ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

By demonstrating the ability for joint observations at the short radio wavelength of 0.87mm, the Event Horizon Telescope has ...

Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. Black holes eat most ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the research provides an accurate dating of Milky Way stars, scientists say. While the chemical make-up of the Milky Way’s stars point to a significant merger in ...

This artist's impression shows a computer generated model of the Milky Way and the accurate positions of the globular clusters used in this study surrounding it. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Using the newest, most accurate motion and mass data from the Gaia and Hubble space telescopes, the team simulated the movements of not just the Milky Way and Andromeda, but two other major ...

Right now, it looks like cosmology is at a tipping point. Will the James Webb telescope resolve the issue by revealing new ...