High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.
The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has used its sensitive instruments to create a mosaic image containing 2.5 billion of the Milky Way's closest neighbor.
The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...