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 ...

For instance, a recent Milky Way galaxy map released by the US-led IceCube collaboration, which studies cosmic neutrinos from thousands of metres below the South Pole, gave strong evidence for the ...

The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy. And that map shows that the edges of the Milky way bend slightly, giving it a warped S shape. "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the ...

Now, the powerful space telescope has pushed it to the edge closer to home in our very own galaxy, the Milky Way. A team of ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

A recent study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy could be much larger than previously thought, potentially overlapping with ...

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

Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...

The results are in line with theory — but the key to an accurate measurement was understanding how dusty the galaxy is.

Supermassive black holes, celestial objects with masses greater than a million times that of the Sun, remain one of the ...