Where exactly are we in the Milky Way? This video maps our true cosmic address with Gaia data—central bar, spiral arms, dark-matter halo, and the Orion Arm where the Solar System lives—and explains ...

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing — the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy ...

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing—the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

A successful builder by day and traversing the sky by night, Isaac Roberts took the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the ...

The Spiral Cellars, like the name suggests, are a series of wine cellars that have a unique spiral design. What you can’t tell from the name is that they’re placed underground. With storage for up to ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of ...

Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with ...

Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have ...

From elegant spirals and massive ellipticals to oddball irregulars and barred beauties, here’s how stars reveal a galaxy’s ...