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 ...
In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...
Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...
Geographer Alastair Bonnett on his pick of the most diverse maps, from a collection of 100,000 galaxies to a 12th-century ...
The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...
The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...
Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...
Dubbed 'Porphyrion' after a mythological Greek giant, this immense structure originated when the universe was just 6.3 ...
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...
A recent study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy could be much larger than previously thought, potentially overlapping with ...
Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor ...
However, unlike most spiral galaxies, M33 lacks a central bulge, which would otherwise house a supermassive black hole. As a ...