About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is home to a diverse range of exotic stars, including blue stragglers ... the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision!

In other words, the galaxy is still very much in the process of forming. The 10 distinct star clusters appear in various shades of pink, purple, and blue ... Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets ... They found that this background radiation was 1 million to 10 million ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...

This study opens important questions in cosmology, particularly on the amount of dark matter contained in our galaxy. The total mass of the Milky Way is estimated to be only two hundred billion ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...