As the sun rises, the Dragon spacecraft is immersed in light. The Milky Way is our home galaxy. From the outside, it would look like a big spiral with swirling arms, but we’re in the midst of it.

NASA image shows LMC as it passes through the gaseous halo of the Milky Way galaxy. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning dance happening in the outer reaches of our Milky Way galaxy.

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 ...

New findings In one of the three new SAGA studies, researchers found that the number of satellites per host galaxy ranges from 0 to 13. The Milky Way's four observable satellites fit within that ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on Wednesday, shared stunning views of the Milky Way galaxy visible from the space station Dragon. The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to ...

Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it ...

The name for our galaxy comes from the ancient Greek words for ‘milk’ or ‘milky’. They could only see it as a bright band of ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

A group of astronomers from the Raman Research Institute (RRI) in Bengaluru has linked the hot gaseous matter surrounding our Milky Way galaxy directly to the heat being pumped in by the ongoing star ...

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 ...

Ten times as many stars are born in the latter galaxy than the estimated 100 billion stars that exist in the Milky Way.Scientists estimate that the rings of the Sombrero galaxy produce less than ...

But the story detailed a groundbreaking discovery: Hubble had found that two spiral-shaped nebulae, objects made up of gas and stars, which were previously thought to reside within our Milky Way ...