New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy - seen 600 million years after the Big Bang - that is ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

US and Canada-based scientists revealed in a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that up to 18% of ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Here’s how it works. Most of the atoms in your body likely spent millions of years circling the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt" before returning to our galaxy prior to the solar system's ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way ... of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together ...