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

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

A group of scientists led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the ...

From the mysterious 'Hand of God' to the shiny brilliance showcasing the formation of new stars in the Westerlund 2 cluster, ...