After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, the Milky Way’s mass is about 1.5 trillion solar masses, and the beefiest ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

The Milky Way galaxy is packed with hydrogen atoms, and these atoms are constantly emitting 21 cm radiation. The best part is that this radiation can travel long distances through the interstellar ...

Carry on further to find Spica (labeled "2" below), the blue ... faint white band across the sky is wispy clouds or the Milky Way galaxy? Well, since Cassiopeia sits right in the center of ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An international ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have discovered what could very well be the Milky Way’s long-lost twin.