Space is really really big. Planet Earth is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (called the Orion Arm) which lies about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the galaxy. We know ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668.

The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with ...

NGC 5668, observed by Hubble, showcases rapid star formation and frequent supernovae, distinguishing it from our own galaxy.

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely ...

Have you ever seen a big band of stars that stretches across the night sky? That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains ...

Here’s how it works. With spiral arms spanning 175,000 light-years across, NGC 6744 is larger than the Milky Way, which spans about 100,000 light-years, according to NASA. About 60% of all ...

NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the ...