A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what ...

A panoramic mosaic, which has been enlarged 600 times, highlights the structures of a spiral galaxy along with 260 sightings ...

Scientists from the SAGA Survey have studied 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies, revealing that our galaxy may have fewer satellite ...

New data suggests our galaxy may reside in an immense basin of gravitational attraction far larger than Laniākea.

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large ...

Using the VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory put 13 years of work into the map, which consists of 200,000 ...

"This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that will help scientists discover new ways to ...

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