Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

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

So how well do you know the Milky Way? Let's test your knowledge of our galaxy's size, age, speed and more with the 15 ...

Without Andromeda, astronomers would know much less about the structure and evolution of our own Milky Way. "With Hubble we can get into enormous detail about what’s happening on a holistic ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Milky Way is a spectacular galaxy, not just because it is home to our solar system ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...