Astronomers have discovered a huge cloud of gas and dust, stretching 200 light-years across, called the Midpoint Cloud.

A shell-like structure in the Midpoint cloud appears to have been caused by the explosive supernova deaths of massive stars. —Record-breaking Milky Way map showcases 1.5 billion objects: 'We have ...

The Milky Way is not just a band of stars stretching across the night sky; it's a massive, dynamic galaxy spanning over 200,000 light-years and containing hundreds of billions of stars, planets, and ...

The outskirts of the Milky Way offer a unique laboratory to study molecular clouds and star formation under metal-poor ...

The Fermi bubbles were discovered in 2010 by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The two orbs form an hourglass structure, one stretching above and another below the center of the Milky Way. Each ...

There was no sign of such circumstances involving this galaxy. J0107a and the Milky Way have some commonalities. "They are similarly huge and possess a similar barred structure.

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, 1,000 light-years thick, and populated by 100 billion stars. That sounds ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

But the only way to get to a new prediction about the eventual fate of the Milky Way will be with even better data.” DOI: Nature Astronomy, 2025. 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1 (About DOIs).

While good news for the Milky Way galaxy, the latest forecast may be moot for humanity. “We likely won’t live to see the benefit,” lead author Till Sawala of the University of Helsinki said ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...