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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning red image of the Tarantula Nebula. it is a star-forming region in the Large ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

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 ...