Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

With the night side of Earth well-placed for observations away from the Milky Way, distant galaxies that can be imaged include the Leo Triplet (M65, M66, NGC 3628), the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101 ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... stupendous galaxy. For me the revelation came the first time ...

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night ... arm of the galaxy because ...

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in ... different class of galaxy, called an elliptical galaxy. After six billion years of cosmic carnage, Earth's night sky would be ablaze with ...

Astronomers have discovered "space tornadoes" raging through the heart of the Milky Way in the vicinity of our galaxy's central ... on the latest missions, night sky and more!

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... than the moon in the night sky. This form of explosion, known ...

From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae, it became clear that the Milky Way was only one star system (or galaxy) among myriad others. This was the birth of our modern ...