Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...

Astrophysicists have recently discovered something that has left them completely baffled. Something is causing massive bullet ...

Rather than a static map, it reveals the galaxy's kinetic history and some of the changes it's gone through. Gaia showed us our galaxy's turbulent history, including the streams of stars stemming from ...

Chris Impey does ... of the Milky Way. Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have ...

The Milky Way is a spectacular galaxy, not just because ... on a new study dropped everything to look deeper into the galactic structure of Milky Way-like galaxies from ages past.

Unlike galaxies and galaxy groups, the Laniakea is not gravitationally bound due to its immense size. All of the components of the Universe are slowly separating at an accelerating rate because of the ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

This is a new artists animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESAs Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really ... so spiral galaxies appeared more like spiral smudges, and were referred ...

Think of it like shining a ... unclear exactly why the Milky Way has less matter than the rest of the universe, but it does continue to point out just how unique our galaxy is compared to others ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...