If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

Hubble's first gigapixel panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy was published exactly ten years ago. This has now been ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

This is the largest photomosaic yet assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

The Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies are drawn to "something": We have no idea what it is. The Great Attractor is a ...

Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by a self-interacting dark matter subhalo. New research points to a dark matter subhalo as the architect behind the unique ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...