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

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

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 ...

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 Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

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

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

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what ...

A panoramic mosaic, which has been enlarged 600 times, highlights the structures of a spiral galaxy along with 260 sightings ...

Scientists from the SAGA Survey have studied 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies, revealing that our galaxy may have fewer satellite ...