We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Every single star you can see is part of the Milky Way ... with Saturn slightly to its east. The Milky Way should be visible the other side of Jupiter in the southern sky. However, it’s really ...

delivering a comprehensive view of stellar populations, including previously unobservable areas on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. The study has been posted to the arXiv preprint server as a ...

By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or ... this side-by-side image of the supermassive ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Every star that you see in the sky is part of the same enormous galaxy. Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars ...