The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to map the position and motion of around 1.8 billion stars has revolutionized our view of the Milky Way. Combined with complementary state-of-the-art ...

Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...

which were previously thought to reside within our Milky Way galaxy, were located outside it. These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on Wednesday, shared stunning views of the Milky Way galaxy visible ...

Shapley used the period-luminosity relationship to estimate distances to other Cepheids across the Milky Way. This is how Shapley reached his estimate for our galaxy's size. But, in order for ...

According to the study, this structure of gas surrounding the dwarf galaxy is only a tenth of the size of comparable galaxies. Most of it has apparently been pushed away by our Milky Way ...

A mesmerizing image of the Milky Way captured from a dark sky sanctuary in the Australian outback has captivated users on Reddit. The image was captured at the Arkaroola International Dark Sky ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky ...

which hints at a past incident with the Milky Way in which our galaxy stripped the LMC of some of its material. Researchers used observations of the LMC from Hubble's ultraviolet vision.