Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

The Size Of The Milky Way Galaxy, Shown To Scale The Size Of The Milky Way Galaxy, Shown To Scale. By Francie Diep. Billions And Billions: Our Galaxy Has At Least 100 Billion Planets, ...

Recent astronomical observations have confirmed that the Andromeda Galaxy is on a collision course with our Milky Way, signaling the beginning of an epic cosmic event. Located 2.5 million light years ...

The Milky Way, however, is much larger than would be expected based on the size of our Local Sheet, despite not being an uncommonly large galaxy on a universal scale.

The Solar System is located in one of the arms in the disc of a barred spiral galaxy we call the Milky Way, with a diameter of about 100,000 light years.

The galaxy we inhabit, the Milky Way, may be getting even bigger, according to Cristina Martínez-Lombilla, a PhD candidate at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, Spain, and her ...

The most precise 3-D map of our Milky Way galaxy has been revealed by astronomers. The 3-D Milky Way map was created using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space probe that&#821… ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Compared to the Milky Way, Andromeda is significantly larger in extent, with a diameter that's approximately 220,000 light-years: comparable to double the Milky Way's size. If the Milky Way were ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of, NGC 474, an elliptical galaxy that's 2.5 times larger than our Milky Way.

Previous estimates of the size of the Milky Way disc settled at somewhere between 100,000 and 160,000 light years, but this new round of research throws that number right in the trash.