In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...

A galaxy in the early universe was rich with oxygen, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how early ...

Once the growing galaxy is large enough, it will start to gravitationally arrange itself into the spiral structures we see around us in the local Universe, including our own Milky Way.

Ursa Major III was considered a dark matter galaxy, but was found to be a compact star cluster with a dense core of black ...

NASA found a big cosmic spiral while looking at radio antennas spread through Europe. Now, It's trying to understand how this cosmic structure is so big.

Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow Shapley, who had argued that the Milky Way encompassed the entire universe. “Here is the letter that destroyed my universe,” Shapley remarked.

The most-studied galaxy in the universe – the Milky Way – might not be as “typical” as previously thought, according to a new study. The Milky Way, which is home to Earth and its solar ...

In addition to being a year of total solar eclipse in Ohio, this is the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble’s discovery the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe.

The Milky Way Galaxy Has A Clumpy HaloThe Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business. University of Iowa astronomers have determined our galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases that ...

A team at MIT discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe — 12 to 13 billion years old — hidden in the Milky Way’s Halo.