The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.

Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

An artist’s impression of the Gaia spacecraft, the Milky Way in background. Illustration: Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho. Evidence of the ...

while the majestic Milky Way core dominates the background. Whenever I venture out to capture the night sky, I’m filled with a sense of humility and gratitude for my existence. It’s as if my ...

WASHINGTON - Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is ...

Related Stories ・Scientists discover the origin of Milky Way’s central supermassive ... behavior and patterns in the cosmic microwave background. Unlike ΛCDM, the νHDM model naturally ...

We had to use clever techniques to sort those 378 orbiting galaxies from thousands of objects in the background. It’s a real needle-in-the-haystack problem.” The Milky Way has four observable ...

An expansive photo of the Milky Way with a colourful aurora background of Osoyoos was captured by a local photographer. On Wednesday at 12:30 a.m., Greg Reely snapped the shot of Osoyoos Lake and the ...

"The Milky Way is pushing back so forcefully that the ... The team surveyed the halo by using the background light of 28 bright quasars. The brightest type of active galactic nucleus, quasars ...