To find the end of the Milky Way, scientists looked to the outermost star-formation site, roughly 40,000 light-years from the ...

The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the ...

Scientists have uncovered the true boundary of the Milky Way’s star-forming region using stellar “age mapping.” They found a ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...

The Vela Supercluster was discovered back in 2016, but astronomers just got to know about its true scale.

Astronomers have finally identified where the Milky Way’s star-making activity fades, uncovering a long-sought boundary in ...

Astronomers may have finally put a number on one of our galaxy’s slipperiest questions: where the Milky Way’s physical boundary really ends.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Astrophysicists have mapped the distribution of all the Milky Way's light energy for the very first time. Unlike previous attempts at pinpointing light distribution in our galaxy based on star counts, ...

It’s no surprise the Milky Way is the most-studied galaxy in the universe, given it’s where we live. But studying just one galaxy can only tell us so much about the complex processes by which galaxies ...