Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

"We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

Over that 13-year span, astronomers took over 200,000 images across 420 nights to map as much of the Milky Way as they could. Once stitched together, the map takes up 500 terabytes and houses 1.5 ...

A trio of Japanese astronomers has challenged the accuracy of the first-ever image showing the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy. If confirmed, the findings of the ...

If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish ...

The image is being combined with those from other survey telescopes—such as PanSTARRS 1—to produce a 360º panoramic view of the Milky Way’s disk. “With this new survey, we can map the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is ... which stretches around 1.4 billion light-years across. While the new map helps us to better ...

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