The Milky Way and millions of other galaxies ... In other words, the Great Attractor is a PLACE, the Laniakea supercluster’s centre gravitational point, rather than a THING, such as a star, comet, or ...

Since our Milky Way Galaxy is about 100,000 light-years across ... It's part of the Laniakea Supercluster, which stretches more than 520 million light-years across. And, before the Hercules ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision never before achieved. Surviving solar radiation and ...

Astronomers call a shift to longer wavelengths a redshift. It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy – seen 600 million years after the Big Bang – that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy might have looked like at the same ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

This limited edition colorway features a predominantly purple design with subtle blue accents inspired by the Milky Way galaxy. Its unique and eye-catching color combination serves as a visual ...

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 ...

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 ...