Sounds of Big Bang' Shed New Light on Milky Way Galaxy's Uncanny Home Most of the astronomical objects are identified by ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Researchers have discovered cold hydrogen clouds within superheated Fermi bubbles at the Milky Way's center, challenging ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

“Most of the Milky Way satellites have very ancient star populations. They stopped forming stars about 10 billion years ago,” said Marco Arias, the lead author of the study, in the same release.

The “Red Monsters” are nearly as large as the Milky Way and create stars at a rate faster than most discovered galaxies. NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao & P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), G. Brammer ...

One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae.

The Milky Way is our galaxy, a massive system made of stars, gas and dust. It is estimated to contain more than 100 billion stars and is about 100,000 light-years across.