If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way. The observations recorded by Hubble ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...