There is a direct link between Earth's crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way's structure, as ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

Galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 is on display in this new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope detect a faint smudge that may be the first galaxy, or a nearby impostor, named ...

The Gaia space observatory helped astronomers chart 4,000 light-years worth of our home galaxy.

If there’s one of these planets that could potentially sustain liquid water on the surface, it’s probably that one.” ...

A rare kind of white dwarf can escape the galaxy at 1,200 miles per second. New 3D simulations explain the violent supernova chain behind it.

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

This really is a galaxy far, far away. — -- This really is a galaxy far, far away. A hidden dwarf dark galaxy was discovered four billion light years away from Earth by astrophysicists at ...