Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

The Milky Way is visible from May to October in the UAE, and these dark-sky spots offer the clearest views for stargazing ...

Dubai: As summer begins, UAE residents are in for a celestial treat, the Milky Way Galaxy will be visible in the night sky ...

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

NASA and the European Space Agency recently shared an image of an oddly shaped spiral galaxy located about 190 million ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way. Using NASA’s ...

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

The Milky Way has a giant serpent-like structure that is broken in two places. Scientists say a radio signal is peeking from ...

Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

Looking towards the center of the Milky Way, astronomers have previously spotted giant structures that are sometimes referred ...

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