High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

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

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

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

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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

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

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

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

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...