An object inside our galaxy is moving so fast that it is on track to break free of the Milky Way altogether, racing through ...

Scientists once thought the early universe didn't make them.

The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Instead of limiting methods that rely on stellar positioning or gas distribution alone, an international team utilized the ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...

In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation. Top right: At 500,000 ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

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