Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

St. Louis, Mo. — For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and can’t step outside for a bird’s eye view. Now, ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

Cosmologists may have to rethink galaxy evolution theories as more mature and orderly galaxies are found in the early universe. Imagine archaeologists excavating an old cave where they believed they'd ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has four arms instead of two, according to just published results of a 12-year study by scientists in the U.K. Unlike our view of other galaxies, it's challenging to figure out ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who completed her doctorate at York University under the ...

For ages, mapping the precise architecture of our home galaxy has been a challenge similar to attempting to draw a complete map of a vast, brightly lit city while standing trapped in the dense, hazy ...

The newly discovered feature offers insight into the large-scale structure of our galaxy, which is difficult to study from Earth’s position inside it. Scientists have spotted a previously unrecognized ...