It also fulfilled its primary goal of drawing the biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

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 chance of it occurring any time in the near future is pretty slim. Regardless of the Milky Way’s ultimate celestial fate, discovering and studying unique neighboring galaxies like J23453268 ...

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

A team of UNSW Sydney researchers has unlocked the "sounds" of stars to better understand their age, mass, and evolutionary stage. By listening to stellar oscillations in a cluster called M67, home to ...

Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way, offering insights into the composition of our home galaxy and how it evolved, formed and is structured. Unlike the James ...