Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.

New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The ...

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers made ...

Scientists at NASA, utilizing the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have unveiled a significant finding that indicates the outer ...

A team of astronomers has discovered that the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy may stretch further out into space than was ...

New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The ...

Astronomers discovered the Milky Way's spiral arms extend 10% farther than previously estimated, using light echoes from ...

A 100-year-old mystery surrounding the "shape-shifting" nature of some galaxies has been solved, revealing in the process that our Milky Way galaxy did not always possess its familiar spiral ...

Keith Hawkins, assistant professor of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin, has used chemical cartography—also known as chemical mapping—to identify regions of the Milky Way's spiral arms ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who completed her doctorate at York University under the ...

St. Louis, Mo. — For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and can’t step outside for a bird’s eye view. Now, ...

ESO astronomers have used the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope to capture an image of NGC 6744. This impressive spiral galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away in the southern ...