Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

Charting the Bubble Astrophysicist Michael Yeung and his team used eROSITA, a powerful X-ray telescope aboard a space ...

By spreading out this spectrum, we can essentially observe thousands of light points simultaneously and observe the halo of matter around a ... including our own Milky Way galaxy, and develop maps of ...

Those who know me understand my lifelong passion for looking to the stars and the myriad of celestial wonders hidden within the nighttime skies. A lot of that began when I was just eight years old.

Filipino street food in Manila, Philippines. Check out the first video in our Philippines food series where we take you on a Quiapo Market food tour in Manila, tasting some delicious local Filipino ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

Astronomers have released a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects. This is the most detailed map ever produced to date. Using the VISTA telescope at the ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

The demo is best known for being an enormous hit when the vide0 for it debuted at the expo, but very little of it made it into the final release due to technological constraints. Similar obstacles ...