"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 ...

The Milky Way appears as a dusty band of stars, but by observing its radio frequencies a different view can be seen, ...

The true scale of the Milky Way Galaxy — and, indeed, the universe as a whole — became dramatically clearer in the 1920s. That’s when a new generation of large telescopes coupled with photography ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed radio-colour map of the Milky Way, revealing tens of thousands of sources and ...

The first official image from the Vera Rubin Observatory has revealed a ghostly river of stars stretching farther than our ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known ...