You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

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The lab released a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and destruction that shapes our galactic environment. Scientists may have unco ...

Step inside the research and imagination of Professor Sara Seager, a trailblazer in the search for life beyond Earth and a ...

Two of them, the Magellanic Clouds, can be seen with the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere. They look like detached scraps of the Milky Way.) The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy ...

From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Magellanic clouds, check out these 7 vibrant images of galaxies nearest to the Milky Way ...