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 ...

Our Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That's more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe.Just how many are ...

The Milky Way hosts at least 17 billion Earth-size alien planets, and probably many more, a new study reveals. Astronomers have determined that about 17 percent of stars in our galaxy harbor a roughly ...

Imogen Whittam works for the University of the Western Cape. She receives funding from the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. The Milky Way is the galaxy we live in. A galaxy is a system of ...

Computer simulations and observations of nearby galaxies helped astrophysicists determine that the Milky Way stretches nearly 2 million light-years across, Ken Croswell reported in “Astronomers find ...

We often think of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, as being a self-contained collection of stars, planets, gas and dust. Sure, it's going to slam straight into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy at some ...

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 ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, with its massive size, record speed, and mysterious Milky Way origin, has scientists like Avi Loeb speculating if it's alien technology ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy—two giant galaxies in our local patch of the universe—are heading for an ...