Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious new object in our Milky Way, which is emitting X-rays and radio waves at the same time.

In a new study published today in Nature , we report the discovery of a new long-period transient – and, for the first time, ...

A galaxy remarkably similar in shape to our own Milky Way, yet significantly bigger and dating back to the universe's infancy ...

A Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have discovered a new galaxy that is forming. And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James ...

Cocooned in a diffuse arc, and resembling fireflies "dancing" on a summer night, the newly discovered galaxy -- which the Wellesley team have dubbed the "Firefly Sparkle" -- was taking shape ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy ... it's a new discovery. And this one is right up at the top ...

However, a new picture of galaxy NGC 474 captured ... Astronomers also discovered a supernova within the galaxy. They named it SN 2017fgc upon its discovery in 2017. Josh Hawkins has been writing ...

At just 7.8 million light-years away, the newly discovered dwarf galaxy dw1322m2053 is remarkable for its isolation and lack of star-forming activity. If that wasn’t enough to make you ...

They identified the new group with ALMA in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field. "Through the use of ALMA and ancillary data in the COSMOS field, we have discovered a compact galaxy group ...