The Milky Way is our galactic home, but just how big is it?  Dive into this fascinating exploration of the galaxy's size, ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

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

Jordan Reynolds11 December 2024 New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been at the same stage of development. Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescop ...

Glimpses of a young galaxy forming in a way so similar to our own are unparalleled, Mowla says. The JWST images show a Milky Way-like galaxy in the early stages of its assembly in a universe that ...

It has a mass equal to about 10 million stars the size of our sun ... with what we'd expect for a Milky Way ancestor at that early time. At this stage, the galaxy was about 10,000 times less ...