Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the ...

If the combined transverse motion is large enough, Andromeda will pass the Milky Way at a distance greater than 200 kiloparsecs (652,000 light years). This would avert a collision in the next 10 ...

Most radio jets this far away fade before they reach our antennas. The new image, taken with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), reveals a structure that spans nearly 200,000 light-years – about twice ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual pulses.

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe’s history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way – a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars ...

Ammon News - Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like the Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...