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

That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, and in 4 billion years, it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our solar system away from our own galactic core and reshaping the ...

According to astronomers, the three known collisions between this dwarf galaxy and the Milky Way have triggered major ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 light years across, and that our solar system was 50,000 light-years from ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

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

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

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

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across ... How our own ...