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 ...
A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...
In the late 1930s, astronomer Harlow Shapley stared up at the sky and noticed something extraordinary — an enormous cloud of ...
Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...
The Milky Way might belong to a much larger cosmic structure. New research connects the galaxy to the Shapley Concentration.
The research, led by scientists from Leiden University in the Netherlands, reveals that REBELS-25 is much more orderly than ...
A panoramic mosaic, which has been enlarged 600 times, highlights the structures of a spiral galaxy along with 260 sightings ...
Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Researchers have discovered a ...
Astronomers have identified a distant galaxy, REBELS-25, using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA).
"This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that will help scientists discover new ways to ...