Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

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That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, and in 4 billion years, it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our ... unexpected places beyond Earth, these massive gas halos ...

Milky Way May Have Billions of Earth-Like Planets There could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy, according to a new study. WSJ's Monika Vosough reports.

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

the most distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth. That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky ... way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth.

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

New research suggests that the carbon that serves as the building blocks of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth. The scientists behind ...