The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

A threatened Australian insect joins the exclusive club of celestial navigators.

A massive barred spiral galaxy from 11.1 billion years ago has been discovered, showing star-forming activity and gas ...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with ...

A new study finds an Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass.

complete with a central bar of stars and gas – a hallmark of the Milky Way. However, the similarities end there. J0107a dwarfs our galaxy in mass, weighing in at over 10 times greater ...

For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other ...

Now in its eighth year, the Milky Way Photographer of the Year showcases ... meaning it has a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars, and spiral arms that extend outward.

Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s ...