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

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

It has been just over three years since JWST was launched into space and in that time, the telescope has dramatically ...

Spiral galaxies with less defined arms are called flocculent spiral galaxies. For reference, our Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, though researchers continue to investigate its exact structure ...

Comparison of simulation of three main star forming episodes in the spiral arms with the currently observed Cepheid variables. Oldest stars (red) are 400 million years old and the youngest (blue) are ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

NASA captured this stunning image of Messier 75 or M75, also known as NGC 6864, which is a giant globular cluster of stars in the southern constellation Sagittarius.

which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image, we see the spiral galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC 4567 locked in a ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.