New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

It is clear that human beings, throughout history, have always had a constant curiosity to discover everything that happens ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

Elon Musk recently said he is “not chomping at the bit to acquire TikTok.” Musk made those remarks during an interview at the ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.

The research team said these rings likely formed when a smaller galaxy shot through the heart of the Bullseye galaxy roughly ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

when researchers precisely measured the motions of many stars within the Andromeda Galaxy and found that these stars were approaching the Milky Way. Presently, the two galaxies are moving toward ...

The Bullseye galaxy is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings. Fifty million years ago, two galaxies met up in space. One was tiny, the other large. The small galaxy ...