A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The core of the Milky ... Images) Step outside on a clear, moonless night, and you may catch a hazy ark of light stretching from horizon to horizon—the spiral arms of our own Milky Way galaxy.

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

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 ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety ... In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

For me the revelation came the first ... and we live in the middle of it. When I show young people my first published picture of the Milky Way I like to point out that this is their home.

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been at the same stage of development. Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A* ... Scientists discover 2 stars dancing around the Milky Way's black hole — and they could point to a ...