Keeping in mind that one light year is equal to about 6 trillion miles, the spiral disk of stars that is our Milky Way Galaxy spans 100,000 light years in diameter. The thickness of that disk, though, ...

Astronomers have at last identified what's believed to be the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. A team of astronomers from England used that farthest point to determine that the diameter of the Milky Way ...

This image provided by the European Space Agency ESA, is Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the ...

Imogen Whittam works for the University of the Western Cape. She receives funding from the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. The Milky Way is the galaxy we live in. A galaxy is a system of ...

We often think of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, as being a self-contained collection of stars, planets, gas and dust. Sure, it's going to slam straight into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy at some ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of a galaxy that's over twice the size of our Milky Way. According to NASA, the gigantic elliptical galaxy (dubbed NGC 474) sits about ...

We have the barest inkling of how truly vast the Milky Way galaxy is, but looking up on a dark summer night is enough to convince you it must be REALLY big. After all, this garland of hazy light ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

When Peter Predehl, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, first laid eyes on the new map of the universe’s hottest objects, he immediately recognized ...