Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Astronomers have identified a colossal giant radio galaxy (GRG) stretching 3.3 million light-years across—32 times the size ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

It has a mass more than 4 million times the mass of the sun crammed into a diameter just about 30 times the sun’s width. The Milky Way is just one of more than 100 billion galaxies in the ...

Recently, a team of astronomers made an extraordinary discovery: a new giant radio galaxy (GRG) named Inkathazo, detected using the MeerKAT telescope located in South Africa. This cosmic structure, ...

The Milky Way's four observable satellites fit within that range. The study also revealed that host galaxies with large satellites, similar in size to the Milky Way's massive LMC and SMC galaxies ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy ... to vast superclusters measuring hundreds of millions of light years in diameter. Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return to the ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

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 ...