We had to use clever techniques to sort those 378 orbiting galaxies from thousands of objects in the background. It’s a real needle-in-the-haystack problem.” The Milky Way has four observable ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

Caption the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California with an image of the Milky Way in the background. The stars represent the number of supernovae discovered in each ...

ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches European Space Agency starts to unfold atlas of 1 billion stars in 3D Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way ...

(CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat.

For comparison, the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way has about 4 million solar masses. Elsewhere in the universe, there are supermassive black holes with billions of times more mass than ...

Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole ...

"The Milky Way is pushing back so forcefully that the ... The team surveyed the halo by using the background light of 28 bright quasars. The brightest type of active galactic nucleus, quasars ...

In this full-sky map presented in Galactic coordinates, the background shows the brightness of 21-cm line emission tracing both warm and cold components of neutral hydrogen gas from the Milky Way ...

Here's how his beautiful picture of the Milky Way seen above a mountain in Norway looks on the new iPhone: Haagensen took the photo that will be preloaded onto millions of new iPhones last ...