Washington, May 23 (ANI): Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, a UC Irvine-led research has revealed.

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Astronomers have found the farthest known solar twin in the Milky Way Galaxy-CoRoT Sol 1, which has about the same mass and chemical composition as the Sun.

Washington, May 8 (ANI): Using ESA's Herschel space observatory, astronomers have made detailed observations of surprisingly hot molecular gas that may be orbiting or falling towards the supermassive black hole lurking at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.

Washington, May 1(ANI): Astronomers at the Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research (SOAR) and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) have obtained sharp stellar images using a new instrument dubbed SAM, for SOAR Adaptive Module, which creates an artificial laser guide star.

Washington, April 18 (ANI): Astronomers using Europe's Herschel Space Observatory have discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way.

Washington, April 11 (ANI): An Indian scientist and his Taiwanese colleague have discovered a blue supergiant star located far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy in the constellation Virgo.

Washington, Apr 6 (ANI): Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered signs of star formation perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Washington, April 3 (ANI): How spiral galaxies like our Milky Way get and maintain their characteristic arms has proved to be an enduring puzzle in astrophysics.

Washington, March 28 (ANI): Observation of a vast star-forming cloud, called W3, by ESA's Herschel space observatory is helping astronomers to understand how massive stars are born.

Washington, Mar 24 (ANI): If you have wondered whether there is another planet similar to Earth out there in space, the answer is absolutely yes.

Washington, Mar 23 (ANI): If you have wondered whether there is another planet similar to Earth out there in space, the answer is absolutely yes.

Washington, Mar 16(ANI): NASA's Swift satellite has uncovered the previously unknown remains of a shattered star while performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions.

London, March 7 (ANI): Astronomers have improved the measurement of the distance to our nearest neighboring galaxy and, in the process, refine an astronomical calculation that helps measure the expansion of the universe.

Washington, February 22 (ANI): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope peered deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy and uncovered tantalizing evidence for the possible existence of a shell of stars that are a relic of cannibalism by our Milky Way.

Washington, February 14 (ANI): Ultra-cool dwarfs - defined as stars with a temperature below 2500 K - are the most ancient objects in our galaxy and, therefore, they can provide information about its primitive chemical composition.

Washington, February 14 (ANI): A highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy, new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have suggested.

Washington, January 25 (ANI): Dung beetle - an insect with a tiny brain and minimal computing power - has become the first animal proven to use the Milky Way for orientation.

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Astronomers have identified a new structure in the Milky Way - a long tendril of dust and gas that they are calling a "bone."

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Researchers have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).

London, January 3 (ANI): Monster outflows of charged particles from the centre of our galaxy, stretching more than halfway across the sky, have been detected and mapped with CSIRO's 64-m Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia.

Washington, December 20 (ANI): Astronomers now have the clearest understanding yet of the bar at the centre of the Milky Way.

London, December 20(ANI): Relics of the early years of the Universe, with ages of typically 12-13 billion years (the Big Bang took place 13.7 billion years ago), there are roughly 150 globular clusters in the Milky Way and they contain many of our galaxy's oldest stars.

London, December 11 (ANI): Scientists from the Puerto Rico-based Planetary Habitability Laboratory that runs the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, an ambitious project to catalogue every habitable planet, have discovered seven worlds inside the Milky Way that could possibly harbour life.

Washington, December 5 (ANI): Astronomers have combined the observing powers of ESA's Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes and characterized hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, revealing extraordinary high star-formation rates across the history of the universe.

Washington, December 4 (ANI): Stars that resemble our own Sun are scattered around the Milky Way - and a new study has suggested that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than Earth.