Nadiyah Johnson launched Milky Way Tech Hub, the social impact arm of her software development company Jet Constellations, in 2017. The organization is expanding considerably this year ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

“These are fully functional galaxies, but they’re about a millionth of the size of the Milky Way,” said Eric Bell, an astronomer at the University of Michigan and senior author of the ...

The “Red Monsters” are nearly as large as the Milky Way and create stars at a rate faster than most discovered galaxies. NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao & P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), G.

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic ...

A cosmic train wreck may be looming in our future. The Andromeda galaxy, a near twin of our Milky Way, is barreling toward us. You can already see it coming if you know where to look—Andromeda ...

Chinese astronomers have revealed new findings about the size of the Milky Way galaxy, suggesting it’s significantly larger than previously thought. Their research, published in the prestigious ...

These signify the first steps of our galaxy’s growth towards its present size.” The Milky Way started out small and grew in size as it merged with other galaxies, gaining stars as well as ...

The two star-filled discs were strikingly similar to those located in the Milky Way galaxy. This revelation presented the astronomers with a rare opportunity to compare our own galaxy with its ...