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

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

And so what it is telling scientists is an awful lot about the early formation of things like the Milky Way Galaxy in ways we have never seen before. The James Webb Telescope has the ability to ...

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

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