The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Most small galaxies that stopped making new stars in the early universe never resumed operations. Something caused their ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Galanti and his colleagues had previously found evidence of axion-like particles in light from distant blazars – extremely active galaxies that blaze with light. But the brightest gamma-ray explosion ...

Uncover the mystery of Omega Centauri: a stellar-mass black hole is responsible for the fast movement of nearly ten million ...

This is an important and timely hearing; your leadership in addressing improvements to the way budgeting is conducted by the federal government is to be commended. While there has been a fairly ...

But around the cosmic time that we are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were about 10,000 times less massive than today’s Milky Way. Hopefully with the collaboration ...

Using data from the APOGEE survey, astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, the University of Vienna and Paris Observatory have reconstructed the properties of ‘hidden’ stars ...