Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety ... variables that he identified in our galaxy were the first rung.

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

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.

At the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy lies a supermassive black hole with a mass of approximately 1.5 billion times that of our sun ... will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular ...

Physicist Crespo, through his Quantum Fracture account, recently explained that the Sun could change galaxies: "Andromeda, the largest galaxy in our cosmic ... it from the Milky Way and, just ...

Beneath that is a selection of intriguing sights within the mosaic, labeled A through E: A: Star clusters in Andromeda, foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far ...

The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...

When you buy through links on our articles ... who paved the way for his discovery. "It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work ...

Shapley's goal was to measure the size of the Milky Way — and hence the universe as he saw it — by creating the first official cosmic distance ladder. Cepheid variables that he identified in our ...