Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

An object inside our galaxy is moving so fast that it is on track to break free of the Milky Way altogether, racing through ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation. Top right: At 500,000 ...

Spotted: An object moving 1 million mph and zooming out of the Milky Way! Citizen scientists found the speeding stellar ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

Instead of limiting methods that rely on stellar positioning or gas distribution alone, an international team utilized the ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

The "bone" is actually a galactic center filament, and it's about 230 light-years long. Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ...