Elena Tomasetti of the University of Bologna discusses her team's calculation of the estimated age of the universe in an ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat ...

The Andromeda galaxy, left, is about to collide with part of the Milky Way, as seen from Earth, in a hypothetical merger scenario. Credit: NASA illustration "Based on the best available data, the fate ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbours, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. ESA/Hubble & ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years ...

Scientists believe the Hubble telescope has, for the first time, detected evidence of a black hole situated between stars in our galaxy. "Until now, all black hole masses have been inferred ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) along with other ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...

Astronomers from the University of Groningen have discovered that the Milky Way does not move in the cosmic void, but is embedded in a flat "sheet" of dark matter. This was reported on March 11 in the ...