"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

How new dark matter could solve mystery about Milky Way - Telescopes have detected a mysterious glow of gamma rays ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.

Some three times the size of our Milky Way, the galaxy lies nearly a billion years away from us. The team found that 2MASX J23453268−0449256 sports a supermassive black hole larger than thought ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

The Milky Way is actually part of a galaxy group, known as the Local Group ... in the lower right part of this image. This is the star HD 101274. The perspective in this image makes the star ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...