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

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...

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

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A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic ...

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

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The Fermi Bubbles, massive shockwaves from a black hole eruption, still expand over the Milky Way. This event reshaped our ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...