How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and their retinue of a few dozen ... measuring hundreds of millions of light years in diameter. Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return ...

This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

By dating the stars in the galaxy, the researchers also found ... The team also suggests their evidence shows that the Milky Way reached its maximum size approximately 11 billion years ago.

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

The galaxy in Tacchella and his colleagues recent study is only one hundred thousandth the mass of our Milky Way, but it may eventually catch up.) This image compares the size of Tacchella and his ...

Space is teeming with objects that, from the right perspective, might resemble things we're familiar with. This visual ...

The universe is littered with trillions of galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda. If you spent your entire life, a hundred lives, looking at every galaxy you could see in a telescope, you would ...

Both have increased star formation rates. Combined, they are estimated to form the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun annually. Our Milky Way galaxy forms the equivalent of ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...