But the stellar halo, as this roughly ball-shaped, less dense grouping of stars is called, stretches the limits of the Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way. Measuring 3.3 million light-years from end-to-end, the cosmic megastructure was ...

Astronomers have released a paper revealing that they have discovered the exact diameter of the Milky Way galaxy. The paper has been released by astronomers from Durham University in England, and more ...

Keeping in mind that one light year is equal to about 6 trillion miles, the spiral disk of stars that is our Milky Way Galaxy spans 100,000 light years in diameter. The thickness of that disk, though, ...

At approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, the Milky Way’s vastness and the broader, ever-changing dynamics of the cosmos defy any attempt to fully understand our home galaxy and its history.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of a galaxy that's over twice the size of our Milky Way. According to NASA, the gigantic elliptical galaxy (dubbed NGC 474) sits about ...

Andromeda is a large galaxy, much bigger than our Milky Way. Andromeda contains about a trillion stars. Andromeda is moving towards our Milky Way. In billions of years, Andromeda and the Milky Way ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

I/ATLAS, the interstellar object discovered in 2025, reveals the estimated population, composition, and distribution of ...