The heart of our Milky Way galaxy is much more active than most people would realize ... Check us out on EarthSnap, a free app brought to you by Eric Ralls and Earth.com.

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

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

MeerKAT’s newest giant radio galaxy find is extraordinary. The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

The result of the spacecraft’s endeavors is nothing less than the largest, most precise map of our galaxy to ... black hole in the Milky Way, just 2,000 light-years from Earth.

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky ... way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth.