There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history ...

Scientists from the US and Europe have been studying the object, and came to the conclusion that it isn’t like anything else ever seen in the Milky Way ... and background galaxy,’ the team ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the Milky Way, without signs of a galactic collision. Using Webb and ALMA, ...

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images our home galaxy, and a recent scan caught something that might be familiar ...

An artist’s impression of the Gaia spacecraft, the Milky Way in background. Illustration ... whose positions and movements have shifted as our galaxy has interacted with other galaxies ...

No other Milky Way stars have ... debris of the merger event," Feng added. The Milky Way has grown over time through such calamities. "The larger galaxy grows by eating smaller galaxies - by ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...

until now no one knew that one of these beasts resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that's right near the Milky Way. "Now that there is strong evidence that it should be there ...

The billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant in May 2025. Here's how to ...

The Andromeda galaxy ... but there was no data to support this hypothesis. Island universes referred to the idea that there could be enormous stellar systems outside the Milky Way – but ...