A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a strikingly mature galaxy that mirrors the structure of our own Milky Way, but from a time when the universe was just a fraction of its current age.

Model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. (ESA-Science Office) Astronomers have been releasing Gaia's data in batches since 2016 ...

The astronomers from Deason’s team found that same kind of slowdown in galaxy speeds near the Milky Way, which helped them pinpoint the edge of our galaxy, at about 950,000 light-years from the ...

The smallest, dimmest galaxy ... the Milky Way, in the past,” Bell said. “Now we’re able to look at one around Andromeda and it’s the first time we’ve done that outside our system.” ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to travel through a cloud of cosmic dust to reach our telescope ... of dust in the Milky Way galaxy. Zhang and Green turned to ...

They carry the imprint of the environments in which they formed, and studying them lets us piece together the story of our galaxy. The Milky Way has grown by merging with smaller galaxies ...