The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

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The cosmos conceals many secrets from us, and recent discoveries continually surprise us. Technological advancements, ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image yet of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble previously ...

Japanese researchers have developed a deep-learning model that identifies previously unknown bubble-like structures in the ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can even devour other black holes. And now, one scientist thinks there’s a chance ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, or ACT, collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s ...

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet’s atmosphere.

The 34-year-old has spent the last 14 years working with Mars Wrigley as a chocolate scientist, creating new products for ...

History never ceases to amaze us and a group of astronomers has found a group of small galaxies located about 3 million light years from Earth, with Andromeda XXXV standing out as ...