Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...
That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, and in 4 billion years, it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our ... unexpected places beyond Earth, these massive gas halos ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.
"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on ...
Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially ... stars in the Andromeda galaxy that are brighter than Earth's sun. But astronomers estimate ...
Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position ... away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth.