A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what ...

Astronomers have identified the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way, a discovery that reshapes our understanding of the ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the early universe. Credit:ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is no giant, but it is much larger than the average galaxy in our part of the universe, a status it has achieved by consuming smaller collections of stars. The Gaia Space ...

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic ...

The images were pieced together to form a map of the centre regions of our galaxy. They used an infrared camera, which could see areas of the Milky Way previously hidden by space dust. On Sept.

The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways ... the scientists monitored the central regions of the Milky Way for more than 13 years.

That might be what astronomers felt when they discovered an evolved galaxy similar to the Milky Way, but lighting up space when the universe was merely 700 million years old. Given that most ...

Up until recently, theorists have believed a galaxy as elegant as the Milky Way — having a rotating disk and spiral arms, for example — would require billions of years of evolution.