But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

In a groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have discovered high-velocity gas clouds near ...

The ALMA Observatory, one of the world’s most advanced astronomical facilities, has uncovered unprecedented details about the earliest galaxies formed in the universe. The results of the CRISTAL ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

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Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that, surprisingly, is shaped much like our Milky Way – a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and gas ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...

Multiple-arm spiral galaxies are of an intermediate type. About 83 percent of such galaxies have an inner two-arm symmetry and several irregular arms in their outer parts. Only about 2 percent have ...