The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's disc is shining with gamma rays at ultra-high energies Researchers have managed to use the study of gamma rays to peek into the origins of cosmic ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date. This ultra-massive system, shaped like a flattened disk, existed just one ...

Astronomers for the first time detected neutrinos that originated within our local galaxy using a new technique.

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, and the results are far messier than expected.

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

The results allowed the astronomers to reconstruct the first detailed, three-dimensional map of the extinction curve of dust in the Milky Way.

The Milky Way could be coming to a sky near you. The billions of stars comprising our home galaxy should appear especially vibrant in late-May as the band arcs across the night sky.

One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’ Hubble transformed astronomers’ understanding of the universe.

The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many planets. At 1.5 billion objects, the map represents only a small slice of the galaxy.

Comprising thousands of detectors buried in Antarctic ice, this unique observatory produced our first view of our home galaxy using high-energy neutrinos.

A Milky Way Twin in the Early Universe Among these new findings is Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy candidate identified to date, seen at a redshift of 5.2 -- just 1 billion years after ...