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

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy, but we will never see what it looks like from the outside. It ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

This image by Taiwanese photographer Shang Yao-Yuan shows that you don't need the latest kit to capture the cosmos ...

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

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...

The Milky Way Motel is a 17-room boutique hotel from architect and developer Kyle Resmondo that will join the hip nightlife ...