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 ...

In other words, the Great Attractor is a PLACE, the Laniakea supercluster’s centre gravitational point, rather than a THING, such as a star, comet, or galaxy ... than an isolated object. The Milky Way ...

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

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map ... galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble's results suggested the farther away a galaxy ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

A team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researcher Catherine Fielder captured the most precise photographs of a ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.