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.

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Arizona The Grand Canyon is renowned for its breathtaking daytime views, but its nighttime sky is equally awe-inspiring. As ...

This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...

Astronomers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) map detailing the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...

Scientists think it came from outside the Milky Way galaxy but its exact source remains a mystery. Neutrinos spew from stars like the sun and trillions stream through our bodies every second.

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

The U.S. space agency's megaphone-shaped SPHEREx - short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way. This breakthrough will provide ...