Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s ...

Scientists have discovered "space tornadoes" swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. International researchers made ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy ... a way around that limitation: For 1% of their chosen stars, there is high-resolution ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

ALMA’s amazingly high resolution has sharpened the view of the tempestuous churn in Milky Way’s central zone ... The general notion that the core of our galaxy, called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy ... of the galaxy, or what scientists call the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ): The region hosts high densities of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

what does this mean for the future of galaxies like our own Milky Way? "Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...