Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most ...

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

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...

the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast, so we won’t feel a thing.

It's like a big, invisible halo of gas that can stretch for ... Similar to any active and alive galaxy, our galaxy, the Milky Way is still in the business of making new stars and therefore ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy – seen 600 million years after the Big Bang – that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy might have looked like at the same ...