The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

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

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

A giant galaxy measuring 3.3 million light-years across has been found by astronomers using a radio telescope array in South ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.