Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The answer, in this case, was that the southern Milky Way wouldn’t rise until about 2:15 a.m. I needed the southern arm of the galaxy because ... along the length of the arch.

If you hold your thumb out at arm's length and alternately open ... and spiral galaxies were disk-shaped, the Milky Way was ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

But these black holes are nothing compared to supermassive black holes, like Sagittarius A*, which lives at the center of our Milky Way galaxy ... three times the length of Manhattan.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope conducted a remarkable experiment by focusing for 10 straight days on a seemingly empty, dark patch of sky near the Big Dipper, roughly the size of a pinhead held ...