Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

The key enabling tools behind the discovery are the extraordinary sensitivity of JWST and a phenomenon called gravitational ...

The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, curling disturbance that ripples through our Galaxy’s disk, lifting and ...

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

An object inside our galaxy is moving so fast that it is on track to break free of the Milky Way altogether, racing through ...

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

Spotted: An object moving 1 million mph and zooming out of the Milky Way! Citizen scientists found the speeding stellar ...

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...