Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

This ultra-massive system ... Milky Way -- both in shape, size, and stellar mass," she adds. Its disk spans over 60,000 light-years, comparable to our own galaxy, and contains more than 100 ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.