The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

This image by Taiwanese photographer Shang Yao-Yuan shows that you don't need the latest kit to capture the cosmos ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...