Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light-years. Check out ...

Small companion galaxies around our neighboring Andromeda galaxy appear to stretch and point toward Earth in a fascinating ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye and set to merge ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

A sweeping cosmic census from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled nearly 1,700 galaxy groups—marking the deepest and ...

The universe came into existence just under 14 billion years ago, with the main phase of star and galaxy formation peaking at ...

1. Andromeda Galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy at 2.5 million light-years, it’s massive, visible to the naked eye, and heading toward the Milky Way. 2. Triangulum Galaxy is a small ...

I don't usually compare what we see going on out there in space with mediaeval ritual, but in this case it is hard to resist.

Using combined observations from ground-based telescopes over nearly four years, the researchers saw the distant galactic ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

The structure of the disk is dominated by four major spiral arms and ... are called “dwarf elliptical galaxies” and are satellites of larger galaxies. The Andromeda galaxy, for example ...

The billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant in May 2025 as the band ...