It takes the Earth one year to orbit all the way around the sun. But the sun’s path around the Milky Way is much bigger. It ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Carbon dioxide’s role in warming early exoplanetary atmospheres is likely necessary to create a habitable zone. But it could ...

Astronomers have identified a distant galaxy, REBELS-25, using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA).

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet ...

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb ...

The Milky Way might belong to a much larger cosmic structure. New research connects the galaxy to the Shapley Concentration.

New data suggests our galaxy may reside in an immense basin of gravitational attraction far larger than Laniākea.

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what ...

A panoramic mosaic, which has been enlarged 600 times, highlights the structures of a spiral galaxy along with 260 sightings ...