SPHEREx, NASA's latest space telescope, was initially set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in late February. But the mission has b...

NASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities in certain aspects. With a modest $488 mil...

To properly understand what a galaxy is, we should start by looking at our own Milky Way galaxy.

Berlin, April 26 (IANS) The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the richest star catalogue to date, revealing previously unseen detail...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with a bulge at the centre, thousands of light years in diameter, that contains about a quarter of the tot...

Sydney, Dec 5 (IANS) At least 13 per cent of the sky is covered by high-velocity clouds of gas moving at speeds of hundreds of kilometres p...

Melbourne, Dec 26 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has found a massive supercluster of galaxies that had previously gone undetec...

Sydney, Oct 20 (IANS) Scientists have created a detailed map of the Milky Way using two large fully steerable radio telescopes in Germany a...

Researchers used the data map to answer the big questions about the Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies.

Scientists have discovered hundreds of galaxies just 250 million light years away from Earth which had been hidden from view until now by o...

The chart uses the ages of more than 70,000 stars and extends halfway across our galaxy to 50,000 light-years away.

Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky Way: a disc of young stars buried behind thick dust clouds in the c...

Astronomers have compiled the largest astronomical image to date - a picture of the Milky Way galaxy that contains 46 billion pixels.

Gaia, the satellite built by the ESA, is on a mission to catalog a billion stars and create a massive 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy.

An Interstellar-style space-time tunnel may exist in the Milky Way and we could even travel through it, according to a new theory proposed ...

Fibres were spotted on Gaia before launch, but cutting them off was considered too risky, because that could allow small particles to enter...

Astronomers have determined that our Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, dubbed 'Laniakea'.