At the heart of this cosmic revelation lies Palomar 5, a stellar stream stretching across 30,000 light-years of space.

VIRCAM managed to peer through the dust and gas that permeates our galaxy — it was therefore able to see the radiation from the Milky Way's usually hidden locations and painting a quite complete ...

Tate Modern, London, has acquired Milŋiyawuy, a series of meticulous black and white paintings on bark, by senior Yolŋu ...

From the violent births of newborn stars to the hidden mysteries of the galactic core, these new images show the Milky Way as you've never seen it before. After 13 years of observations ...

TALENTED photographers have shared more beautiful images of what has been described as ‘the comet of the century’.

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

The "first page" of an incredible cosmic atlas being built by the Euclid Space Telescope has been released. The millions of ...

GLEN HAVEN, MI - Just steps from Sleeping Bear Bay, the sign outside of the big white house promises tourist rooms and ...

The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting satellite galaxies is quite unusual, a new 12-year study of other galaxies in the local universe has found. The Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA ...

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic ...

A long-term survey of small, “satellite” galaxies that orbit larger galaxies across the universe offers new insights into our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic ...