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

For the first time, astronomers have spotted and "weighed" a baby Milky Way-like galaxy lurking ... JWST to detect the far-flung galaxy — although the image is warped. This effect means the ...

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

The newly imaged stars are located within the "Dragon Arc," a spiral galaxy ... within the Milky Way may have evolved. The researchers will now hunt for more stars within the warped light of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

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

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above - eventually, this view will be completely destroyed by a collision of galactic proportions. Earth itself will survive ...

This study opens important questions in cosmology, particularly on the amount of dark matter contained in our galaxy. The total mass of the Milky Way is estimated to be only two hundred billion ...

A galaxy lurking in the far reaches of the Universe, a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang, is giving us our best glimpse yet at what our own infant Milky Way might have looked like.