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 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 ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

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

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

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 ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy, located about 200,000 light-years away, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy is being torn apart, a new study has claimed. The findings, published in The ...

A Japanese research group has found evidence that a galaxy in the immediate vicinity of our Milky Way is being torn apart by its larger companion and, unexpectedly, does not revolve around itself.

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 ...