Dark energy — the stuff that accelerates the expansion of the universe — is only now beginning to be understood ...

We can identify each of these places on a map to find out ... the Milky Way Galaxy. But what's after that? What is beyond planet, star, and galaxy? What is the geography of the universe?

But three new studies raise questions about whether the Milky Way is truly representative of other galaxies in the universe ... the frontier is figuring out what dark matter is doing on scales ...

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way. Today, up to several trillion galaxies are estimated to fill the Universe ...

to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big Bang. This galaxy ...

Within the disk, the brightest stars trace out the characteristic ... another star in the Milky Way, so too have we found that our galaxy holds no special place in the universe.

Through the thick fog of our own galaxy, astronomers have spotted an ultimate prize: one of the largest-known structures in the universe ... disk of the Milky Way from the inside-out.

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...

"Our results show that we cannot constrain models of galaxy formation just to the Milky Way," said Wechsler. "We have to look at that full distribution of similar galaxies across the universe." ...

These shots of the Milky Way were taken by 25-year-old photographer Stephen Bank over the past month They include some of the county's most iconic locations such as the renowned beauty spot Durdle ...

To find the ... merged with a younger Milky Way Galaxy. Now, the only evidence of the dwarf ancient galaxy is the trio of stars. But the team suspects there are more out there.