New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf ...

We’ve known since the 1950s that the Milky Way’s disk is warped and asymmetrical, but we were unsure of why, said ESA. Gaia has revealed that this warping is caused by an ongoing collision ...

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. I’m one of the lead researchers who made the discovery. We’ve ...

To see Neptune and Uranus, you will need a telescope. This picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth’s moon. (Getty) “Venus, Saturn and Neptune will be ...

The most detailed panorama of the entire Andromeda galaxy is packed with science that could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve.

making it the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way. Andromeda is seen almost edge-on, tilted by 77 degrees relative to Earth’s view. The galaxy is so large that the mosaic is assembled from ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda ... detailed than the Milky Way, because we can’t even see most of the Milky Way — it’s ...

Despite its dim glow, this galaxy is the largest and closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way ... tonight left Andromeda 2.5 million years ago. At that time, early human ancestors, Homo habilis, had ...