ESA/Hubble celebrates 35 years with a stunning new image of the Eagle Nebula — a massive cosmic spire sculpted by star ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...

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

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of NGC 4941, a spiral galaxy located approximately 67 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This relatively close ...

But the Big Wheel upends that script — it's a fully formed, spiral disk galaxy, echoing the structure of the Milky Way, only far larger. Its early emergence has stunned astronomers. Conventional ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish ... based MeerKAT radio telescope shows our home galaxy in a completely new way. Colored in blue, cyan, yellow and white, the main ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black ... "both in our galaxy and beyond." ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away. Its spiral stretches 100,000 ... times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches ...