The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy clusters and superclusters containing an astonishing 200 quadrillion solar ...

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Chinese astronomers have revealed new findings about the size of the Milky Way galaxy, suggesting it’s significantly larger than previously thought. Their research, published in the prestigious ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all astronomers ...

The Nancy Grace Roman (the famous NASA astronomer, not to be mistaken for the crime show host), which is slated for launch by May 2027.

The telescopes astronomers use to probe the universe have gotten very good over the years. We can peer out into the universe to see uncountable galaxies in fine detail, but we actually know less about ...

Astronomers peering into some of the furthest reaches of our universe have made a “baffling” discovery: the most distant rotating disc galaxy ever observed. And it closely — if not eerily — resembles ...