Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

It’s a barred spiral galaxy, which means it has a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars, with spiral arms extending outwards. NASA has captured detailed pictured of the Milky Way using ...

Stare into the heart of our galaxy – the Milky Way, filled with billions of stars and mysterious deep-space wonders.

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space ... But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ...

but it is extremely rare for one galaxy to dive through the center of another,” NASA said. This illustration compares the size of our own Milky Way galaxy to gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424, ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space ... But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.