A look at Edwin Hubble’s role in confirming that the Andromeda Galaxy lies beyond the Milky Way, helping expand our understanding of the universe.

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling ...

Until 26 March. Not long left to catch The Kallin Family Exhibition 2026, running at Burgh House in Hampstead (open Weds-Sun) ...

With his Billboard 200-topping album OCTANE, the Houstonian creates his own sonic world — and ascends to rap’s A-list.

Also closing this week, a treat for fans of Jane Austen (pun intended). The Fan Museum in Greenwich presents Fans in the Age ...

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about 13.6 billion years old, as a new analysis suggests, then the universe ...

"Milky Way season," when our galaxy's bright center is most visible, is now beginning in the Northern Hemisphere. The best time to see the Milky Way in the U.S. is generally from March to September.