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

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Scientists observed constant flares from the Milky Way's black hole, revealing unpredictable and intense activity.

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

Astronomers predict that our home galaxy ... be no life on Earth at this time — increasing solar luminosity will have eradicated all life about 2.8 billion years before the first Milky Way ...

Superclusters are large collections of galaxy clusters, groups, and individual galaxies that are typically not gravitationally bound to each other. For example, our Milky Way Galaxy is located on ...

Both also reside in an outer part of the Milky Way galaxy. They note that either ... something seen in young stellar objects—or in background stars positioned behind dense clouds.

The Andromeda galaxy ... but there was no data to support this hypothesis. Island universes referred to the idea that there could be enormous stellar systems outside the Milky Way—but ...

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever ... early universe — until now — ...

A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B ...