The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured ... the two galaxies will continue to draw in on each other.

Drawing of sky-goddess Nut ... Nut may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. In a recent study, astrophysicist Or Graur analyzed ...

A star-filled region of space near the core of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Samuel Crowe (UVA) Labeled portions of the Webb telescope's view of the Sagittarius C region ...

The potential brown dwarf is racing through our Milky Way galaxy at 1.2 million mph (1. ... called "brown dwarfs," often (somewhat unfairly) labeled "failed stars." CWISE J1249+3621,was originally ...

To settle a debate about the size of the Milky Way ... are drawing a different picture, and astronomers no longer agree on the number of arms or their sizes, or even whether our galaxy is ...

quietly roaming the depths of the Milky Way galaxy. Identified in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation, this black hole is believed to be around seven times more massive than our Sun and ...

Gaia's observations enable astronomers to draw connections between groups of stars that share similar origins, helping to piece together our galaxy's history. It's thought that the Milky Way has ...

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky surveys, astronomers now think all those places are part of an ...