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

The Milky Way stands out above the Sandia Mountains and the lights of greater Albuquerque, Photo by Jim Stein.BY WILLIAM ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Have you ever looked at the beach and wondered how many grains of sand there are? That can be mind-boggling to think about.

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

BAE Systems (LON: BA) has successfully delivered NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) Observatory to Vandenberg Space Force Base ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

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