The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests ... outburst using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Giant Metrewave ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and ...

There are some big objects that exist in isolation in space, without either being a star or orbiting one. One of these, SIMP 0136, wanders aimlessly in the Milky Way, about 20 light years away ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules ...

Languages: English. Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The unexpected discovery came ...

It's like we are looking out into space through a dirty window ... most detailed 3D map yet of the properties of dust in the Milky Way galaxy. Zhang and Green turned to data from ESA's Gaia ...

The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency (ESA ... and so far it has revealed the structure of the Milky Way in the greatest detail ever obtained. It has uncovered evidence that our ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Space, to the naked eye, appears still ... ALMA’s amazingly high resolution has sharpened the view of the tempestuous churn in Milky Way’s central zone. This area, surrounding the supermassive black ...