"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100 ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found ...

His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow Shapley, who had argued that the Milky ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow Shapley, who had argued that the Milky ...

There are millions of galaxies in the universe, and while astronomers have cataloged many, some remain relatively unknown to ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed ...

Within the Milky Way itself there are hypervelocity stars ... Its average mass would be 600,000 times the size of the sun. The study—which is currently in preprint but is to be published in ...

Dark matter density in the Milky Way measured using pulsars Pulsar acceleration data reveals galactic gravitational mapping Study expands dark matter research beyond binary pulsars ...

An artist's concept shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the most detailed view into the Milky Way's galactic centre yet, and it's shown that the black hole constantly emits dazzling flares. Some of ...