The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the ...

(The Columbian files) Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way. Don’t worry, the galaxy — comprising ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

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

The Milky Way is our home ... NASA's Chandra X-Ray observatory (blue) and infrared from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (dark red). The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way ... whereas most light blue arrows show movement ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

If you look above and behind it, you'll see an undulating curve that may represent the Milky Way galaxy. . | Credit: Photo courtesy of the Theban Mapping Project; Photographer Francis Dzikowski ...