What is our galaxy, the Milky Way, made of? Well, that is a really good question. I suppose the obvious answer, and it's right in part, is stars - some smaller than the sun and some bigger than ...

The Milky Way is the host galaxy of several satellite galaxies, of which the two largest are the Large and Small Magellanic ...

If you fancy seeing showing the little ones some adorable puffins, travel along to the nearby Lundy Island for some serious bird watching (that the kids will love). Alternatively, rock pooling and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A European Space Agency (ESA) telescope has discovered two ancient 'threads' of stars that wove together to form our home - the Milky Way. ESA's Gaia telescope identified the two threads of stars ...