A detailed map of dust in Milky Way

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 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.
Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...
At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...
Astronomers have discovered the smallest dwarf galaxy ever seen. It is a mystery how the satellite galaxy of Andromeda ...
A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...