A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

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

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests ... particularly the distinctive spiral arms that give these ...

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.

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope show the first steps ...

The sky is rotated to highlight the part of the Milky Way that is home to the Orion Nebula ... to your face appears larger than one held at arm's length." One of the major problems facing ...

25,000 light-years from the galaxy's center. Our solar system lives on a minor arm of the Milky way called the Orion Spur. The Orion Spur branches off from the Sagittarius Arm, one of the galaxy's ...