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 ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

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

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

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

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking ...