THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call ...

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 ...

Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years ...

Solar systems will orbit around the galaxy's core — just like our system completes an orbit around the Milky Way every 240 million years —and aren't pulled into one another as galaxies merge.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has provided groundbreaking data from near the edge of the solar system, revealing the cosmic ...

Serge Brunier; NASA The Milky Way galaxy contains around 100 billion stars, all orbiting the galactic center, where a supermassive black hole lies. Our solar system is located 26,000 light-years ...

Our solar system resides inside a vast cavity, now known as the Local Bubble, which is about 1,000 light-years across. The Local Bubble is a region of surprisingly low-density gas that surrounds ...

The Local Bubble is a region of surprisingly low-density gas that surrounds our solar system and other ... that our nearby region of the Milky Way galaxy was weirdly empty. This result added ...

The jets consist of electrons, positrons, and magnetic fields accelerated to nearly the speed of light, resulting from the ...

That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back. "This pair is not just the size of a solar system ...