A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green ...

Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

open image in gallery A group of researchers say they’ve found mysterious ‘space tornadoes’ in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They used the largest astronomical project in existence to ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 ...