The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

"Photographing Andromeda was a herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target on the sky than the galaxies Hubble ...

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...

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 ...

Spiral galaxies with less defined arms are called flocculent spiral galaxies. For reference, our Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, though researchers continue to investigate its exact structure ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

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 European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

NASA’s Spitzer Telescope revealed the Milky Way’s hidden center, using infrared to uncover its dense, star-packed core. This ...

The Milky Way also has a supermassive black hole ... regions rich in gas and dust found within a spiral galaxy's arms, while older stars can be found throughout the disk and halo.

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...