A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

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Cepheid variables that he identified in our galaxy were the first rung ... Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 ...

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The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

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

The stunning red image of Tarantula Nebula was captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy. This 100 million-year-old globular cluster ...

The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...

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