Graduate students from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) participated in an observational training ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there are.

In fact, the scientists believe that there may be an entire network of tunnels connecting to other bubbles throughout the galaxy ... solar system is constantly on the move through the Milky Way ...

The galaxy spans more than 60,000 light-years across and contains over 100 billion solar masses in stars, making it one of the most compelling analogues of the Milky Way ever found from such an ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn has been a part of The Weather Network's forecasting team for over two decades. She is also well ...

In 1923, Edwin Hubble captured a pulsing star within the Andromeda Galaxy on a glass photographic plate, revealing for the first time that galaxies exist beyond our own Milky Way. By the 1960s ...