Normally, the overwhelming glare of a full Moon makes observing subtle features of the night sky nearly impossible. But with its light dramatically reduced, stargazers saw conditions resembling those ...

A DISTANT galaxy that looks “surprisingly” like our Milky Way has been spotted by astronomers. The galaxy, named SPT0418-47, looks as it was when the Universe was a sprightly 1.4billion… ...

The Milky Way, our warped spiral galaxy, spans 120,000 light-years and hosts over 200 billion stars, including our Sun. It's ...

The largest known galaxy has been discovered by astronomers — measuring in at a whopping 153 times the size of our own Milky Way. Named Alcyoneus, the galaxy is around 3 billion light-years away ...

Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery that sheds new light on how stars are born. Using the powerful Atacama Large ...

Galaxies from the early universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, researchers say. A new study flips the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation ...

The massive galaxy, which is 220,000 light-years across, twice the size of the Milky Way, has been consuming its surroundings for billions of years – and researchers fear the worst for our galaxy.

Astronomers have found a galaxy "surprisingly" like our own Milky Way – further away than any before.

THE MOST precise 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy has been revealed by astronomers. The 3D Milky Way map was created using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space probe that’… ...

Science Space Milky Way fuelled by a mysterious 'void' that drags our galaxy across the universe Scientists have determined that the Milky Way is being dragged through the universe at 1.25 million ...

Scientists have found evidence of a dead galaxy in the Milky Way, which arrived following a collision 10 billion years ago. Researchers have dubbed the deceased galaxy "Heracles" and is thought to ...