Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Gaia’s goal was to create a 3D map of our entire galaxy, and so far it has revealed the structure of the Milky Way in the greatest detail ever obtained. It has uncovered evidence that our galaxy ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...