the most distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth. That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos.
On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...
The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...
Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...
For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...
An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...
Black holes are more common than you may think. There’s even one in our galaxy. Close enough for scientists to actually observe its destructive nature. Produced by Kevin Reilly and Rebecca ...