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

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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.

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

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.

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round trip on a cosmic conveyer belt.

The Andromeda Galaxy is hurtling towards us at an incredible speed of 250,000 miles per hour! That’s fast enough to cover the distance between the Earth ... with the Milky Way, resulting in ...

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 ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

Prior to Gaia, obtaining a robust rotation curve for our galaxy was challenging, unlike the case for external spiral galaxies. This challenge stemmed from our position within the Milky Way ...