The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

The Milky Way seems to be currently colliding with one of its galactic neighbors, and that discovery might change how we ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

It’s like a big, invisible halo of gas that can stretch for hundreds of thousands of light-years. In 2011, findings from the ...

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...

"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A mystery star located at the heart of the Milky Way could very well be from another ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Chris Willott (National Research Council Canada), Lamiya Mowla (Wellesley College), Kartheik ...