Though we may comfortably reside in the Milky Way, there is a whole lot more ... ever photographs — here are 20 stunning photos from the Andromeda galaxy.

Astronomers have completed a stunning massive photomosaic of our closest celestial neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, comprised ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...

The first ever close-up picture of a star outside of our galaxy ... in its death throes,” van Loon said. “Even in our Milky Way galaxy we do not have such image.” Massive stars have shorter ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

MILES O'BRIEN: Well, Geoff, if you could imagine a baby picture of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, this is probably what it would look like, according to scientists. This is a galaxy that is about ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.