Milky way

The exploding star system is located around 7,500 light years away in the constellation Carina (The Ship's Keel.)

Scientists believe there are more pieces of plastic in the ocean than stars in the Milky Way.

Harvard's Ana Bonaca says there is evidence of a "dark substructure" in the Milky Way's halo.

"We usually think of spiral galaxies as being quite flat."

In ancient Egyptian mythology, Sun god Ra would battle with Apep, the god of chaos, every night.

The collision took place 10 billion years ago, when the universe was just three or four billion years old.

The observations offer "a resounding confirmation" of the supermassive black hole long-believed to be lurking at the heart of our galaxy.

The scene shows a vast, colorful cloud of gas and dust dotted with numerous bright young stars.

Researchers used the European Space Agency's star-mapping satellite to make a stunning discovery about the Milky Way.

Our galaxy has "died" once before and we are now in its second life, according to a new hypothesis.

The galaxy belongs to a recently discovered, rare and unusual class of stellar systems known as ultracompact dwarfs.

The meteor shower lasts for a few weeks but Sunday night into Monday morning was peak viewing.

The image reveals in incredible detail a fiery region surrounding the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of the Milky Way.

The image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The image confirms baby planets slice through their host star's dusty disks, leaving holes and rings in their wake.

Scientists wanted to address the question of how much organic material—substances that contain carbon and are essential for life—exists in interstellar space.

Diamonds are an astronomer's best friend.

"It was surprising, but you like to be surprised in science."

The event horizon is the point of no return beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the immense gravitational pull of the black hole.

Mark Heyer took 20 years of radio telescope data to create the composition.

They were created using data from nearly 1.7 billion stars.

Astronomers previously thought these events only occurred around 3 billion years after the Big Bang, but they were happening when the universe was only half that age.

The "unprecedented map" captures the position and brightness of nearly 1.7 billion stars.

Widening waistbands are truly universal.

The Galactic Archaeology survey was launched in a bid to provide new insights into the formation and evolution of the Milky Way.

The diamonds come from meteorites which crashed to Earth in 2008.

The discs contain gas, dust and even young planets that are still in the process of forming as the building blocks of planetary systems.

The galaxies were around in the early stages of the universe, 13 billion years ago.

The black holes surround the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Scientists think the galaxy is expanding at about 550 yards per second.