Sounds of Big Bang' Shed New Light on Milky Way Galaxy's Uncanny Home Most of the astronomical objects are identified by ...

Measuring a galaxy’s brightness or apparent size is not a good guide to its distance. Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier.

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

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Shockingly Tiny Galaxy Near Andromeda Is Just One-Millionth the Size of the Milky Way The fully formed galaxy is remarkably teeny, raising new questions about how galaxies emerge and evolve.

The billions of stars that make up our galaxy known as the Milky Way should be visible in late May.

Sound waves 'fossilized' in the arrangements of galaxies across the Universe support the theory that the Milky Way galaxy ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more likely.

A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive "red monster" galaxies capable of forming their own stars faster than the average nebula.

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.