"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

This new image, released on April 4, 2025, showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb ...

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 ...

To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This cosmic nursery, packed with thousands of ...

but also has a mass that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy's mass might have been at the same stage of development. Other galaxies Webb has detected at this period in the history of the ...

Sadly, 99% of the population in the continental U.S. lives in places considered polluted by light—meaning most of us can’t view our own galaxy. These 9 dark sky refuges bring the Milky Way ...