The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is ... look like an enormous spiral about 100,000 light years ...

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly ...

In this feature, learn the difference between pulsars and quasars, antimatter and dark matter, brown dwarfs and white dwarfs ... nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, about 2.5 million ...

From nebulas and black holes to baby star nurseries and ancient collisions, the universe has never looked more beautiful ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy home to 100-400 billion stars (no one is quite sure how many). It’s a spiral galaxy estimated to be about 13.6 billion years old. It's 100,000 light-years across.

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 ...

Our Sun belongs to a spiral galaxy called the Milky Way. Astronomers estimate that the ... In this instance, the star forms a planetary nebula with a white dwarf at its centre.

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.