Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan 5 jaw-dropping moments from the Beyoncé Bowl ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

On the left side of the animation, numbers indicate the speeds of Earth's rotation, its orbit around the sun, the solar system's orbit around the Milky Way's center, and the galaxy hurtling ...

within the Milky Way galaxy. This composite image, below, shows an animated version of the Christmas Tree Cluster where its blue and white X-ray lights blink: This composite image shows the ...

Bottom: An animated gif of the same galaxy that scrolls through ... Galaxies are vast collections of billions of stars. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of probably about a trillion galaxies in ...