In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million ... to be the most important stellar island near our Milky Way, said the independent space agency. Without Andromeda, astronomers would know ...