Social media users were captivated by the incredible view in the viral clip, with one saying: "My jaw has never dropped so ...

It takes the Earth one year to orbit all the way around the sun. But the sun’s path around the Milky Way is much bigger. It ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet ...

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

Carbon dioxide’s role in warming early exoplanetary atmospheres is likely necessary to create a habitable zone. But it could ...

The Milky Way might belong to a much larger cosmic structure. New research connects the galaxy to the Shapley Concentration.

Modeling predicts that galaxies in the early universe should have formed inside-out. Now, a new observation from the James ...

New data suggests our galaxy may reside in an immense basin of gravitational attraction far larger than Laniākea.

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it ...

The dung beetle's galactic guidance system is launching a new era in navigation technology, proving that sometimes the best ...